Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in Macbeth, Act V, scene 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "Epilogue", 1946, published 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare mit Klavierbegleitung , no. 12, Mainz : Schott, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helen Gifford (b. 1935), "Walking shadows", 2006 [ bass and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Huub de Lange (b. 1955), "A tale told by an idiot", published 2005 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Shakespeare Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Georg Mantey ; composed by Wolfgang Fortner.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Domani, e domani, e domani", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Carlo Rusconi) , no title, first published 1858
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-28
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Word count: 75
Così il dimani, poi il dimani, poi un altro dimani ancora ci sorprende, e tutti i nostri giorni passati altro non fecero che rischiarare agl’incauti il sentiero che guida alla sepoltura. Oh spegniti, spegniti lampada ingannatrice: la vita altro non è che un’ombra incerta, che offusca brev’ora gli oggetti, poi si dilegua. È una favola narrata da un idiota con enfasi di gesti e di suoni, e che alla fine non significa nulla.
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Text Authorship:
- by Carlo Rusconi (1819 - 1889), no title, first published 1858 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in Macbeth, Act V, scene 5
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-02
Line count: 10
Word count: 73