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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
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Macbeth, with line numbers - William Shakespeare
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA
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established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books
Other tragedies by William Shakespeare:
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Hamlet
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Othello
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Timon of Athens
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Troilus and Cressida
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Dramatis Personae
Macbeth
Act I
Scene I A desert place.
Scene II A camp near Forres.
Scene III A heath near Forres.
Scene IV Forres. The palace.
Scene V Inverness. Macbeth's castle.
Scene VI Before Macbeth's castle.
Scene VII Macbeth's castle.
Act II
Scene I Court of Macbeth's castle.
Scene II The same.
Scene III The same.
Scene IV Outside Macbeth's castle.
Act III
Scene I Forres. The palace.
Scene II The palace.
Scene III A park near the palace.
Scene IV The same. Hall in the palace.
Scene V A Heath.
Scene VI Forres. The palace.
Act IV
Scene I A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.
Scene II Fife. Macduff's castle.
Scene III England. Before the King's palace.
Act V
Scene I Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.
Scene II The country near Dunsinane.
Scene III Dunsinane. A room in the castle.
Scene IV Country near Birnam wood.
Scene V Dunsinane. Within the castle.
Scene VI Dunsinane. Before the castle.
Scene VII Another part of the field.
Scene VIII Another part of the field.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Duncan, king of Scotland.
His Sons
Malcolm
Donalbain |
Generals of the king's army
Macbeth
Banquo
Noblemen of Scotland
Macduff
Lennox
Ross
Menteith
Angus
Caithness
Fleance, son to Banquo.
Siward, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces.
Young Siward, his son.
Seyton, an officer attending on Macbeth.
Boy, son to Macduff. (Son:)
An English Doctor. (Doctor:)
A Scotch Doctor. (Doctor:)
A Soldier.
A Porter.
An Old Man
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. (Gentlewoman:)
Hecate
Three Witches.
(First Witch:)
(Second Witch:)
(Third Witch:)
Apparitions.
(First Apparition:)
(Second Apparition:)
(Third Apparition:)
Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers.
(Lord:)
(Sergeant:)
(SERVANT:)
(First Murderer:)
(Second Murderer:)
(Third Murderer:)
(Messenger:)
SCENE Scotland: England.
MACBETH
ACT I
SCENE I A desert place.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES]
(1) FIRST WITCH When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
THIRD WITCH That will be ere the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH Where the place?
SECOND WITCH Upon the heath.
THIRD WITCH There to meet with Macbeth.
FIRST WITCH I come, Graymalkin!
SECOND WITCH Paddock calls.
THIRD WITCH Anon.
(10) ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
[Exeunt]
SCENE II A camp near Forres.
[Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding SERGEANT]
(1) DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.
MALCOLM This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.
SERGEANT Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
(10) Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
(20) Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
DUNCAN O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
SERGEANT As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
(30) Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.
DUNCAN Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
SERGEANT Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
(40) Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
DUNCAN So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
[Exit SERGEANT, attended]
Who comes here?
[Enter ROSS]
MALCOLM The worthy thane of Ross.
LENNOX What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.
ROSS God save the king!
DUNCAN Whence camest thou, worthy thane?
ROSS From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
(50) And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.
DUNCAN Great happiness!
ROSS That now
Sweno, the Norways'