Faulkner drew the title of his novel, and many themes, from Shakespeare's
Macbeth
, specifically lines 19-28 of Act V, scene v.
The sources:
Access the complete play.
Access Macbeth's soliloquy.
Criticism that emphasizes the
Macbeth
connection:
Joel Deshaye, "
A Brief Analysis of
The Sound and the Fury
's Namesake
," 1999.
Peter Stoicheff, "
Faulkner's Foreign Levy:
Macbeth, The Sound and the Fury,
and Writerhood
," 1992.