Violence

• "What bloody man is that? He can report / As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt / The newest state" (King 1:2)
• "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) / Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel / Which smoked with bloody execution" (Capt 1:2)
• "As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they / doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe" (Captain 1:2)
• "He unseamed from the nave to th' chops" (Captain 1:2)
• "Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds / Or memorise another Golgotha" (Captain 1:2)
• "When in swinish sleep / their drenched natures lie as in death / What cannot you and I perform upon th'unguarded Duncan?" (Lady Macbeth 1:7)
• "Where we are / There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, / The nearer bloody" (Donalblain 2:4)
• "Be this [murder of Macduff's family] the whetstone of your sword. Let grief / Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it" (Malcolm 4:3)
• "He has killed me, Mother" (Macduff's son 4:3)