Macbeth blood count

mrmvkng555 | 01:44 Sun 08th Apr 2007 | Arts & Literature

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I am curious if anyone knows how many times Billy-boy uses the word blood (or its variants, e.g. bloody) in Macbeth.

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Quizmonster

10 times each I calculate, after a quick skim through a Shakespeare concordance.

Quizmonster

I should have added above that I looked only for 'blood' and 'bloody'. There may well be other hyphenated words involving these.

Quizmonster

The above figures didn't sound enough somehow, so I consulted another concordance. It came up with 23 for 'blood' and 15 for 'bloody'. That's more like it!
Do a Google search for 'Shakespeare concordance' and check it out yourself.

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wonderful, thank you very much

Octavius

I count about 41

Act I - 5
Act II - 12
Act III - 12
Act IV - 7
Act V - 5

Includes, blood, bloody, bloodier, blood-bolter�d and bloody-scepter'd.
That�s a bloody lot!

Quizmonster

My 23 + 15 = 38. Adding in your bloodier, blood-bolter'd and blood-scepter'd, O, gives us your 41, so we can probably asume that to be the definitive figure.

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