ABSTRACT
Freud provided the formula: remembering, repeating, and working through. For Lady Macbeth, this tidy progress toward resolution seems arrested midway, condemned to the cyclical pattern of repetition without end. Oppressed by nightmares, she herself becomes the belated author of Macbeth. Here is the scene in which her astonished audience, a doctor and a gentlewoman, describe her as she writes, seals, and performs the play-repeatedly, night after night.
