Seemed fitting. Putting aside my rational opinion of the referendum, there was something truly special about hearing certain passages from the play in the context of the vote for independence; closing my eyes and pretending it was hundreds of years ago and the Scotland that voted on its freedom yesterday was the Scotland of the 16th century. Especially the conversation late in act IV between Malcolm and Macduff, my favorite part of the play. "Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know itself..."

  Be not offended:
  I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
  I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
  It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
  Is added to her wounds: I think withal
  There would be hands uplifted in my right;
  And here from gracious England have I offer
  Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
  When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
  Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
  Shall have more vices than it had before,
  More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,
  By him that shall succeed.