The Tragedie of Macbeth ebook

Contents

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ACT I

SCENE I. An open 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. The same. Before the castle.

SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.

ACT II

SCENE I. Inverness. Court within the 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. The same. Another part of the field.

SCENE VIII. The same. Another part of the field.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

DUNCAN, King of Scotland.

MALCOLM, his Son.

DONALBAIN, his Son.

MACBETH, General in the King’s Army.

BANQUO, General in the King’s Army.

MACDUFF, Nobleman of Scotland.

LENNOX, Nobleman of Scotland.

ROSS, Nobleman of Scotland.

MENTEITH, Nobleman of Scotland.

ANGUS, Nobleman of Scotland.

CAITHNESS, Nobleman of Scotland.

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.

An English Doctor. A Scottish Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An Old Man.

LADY MACBETH.

LADY MACDUFF.

Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth.

HECATE,and three Witches.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers.

The Ghost of Banquo and several other Apparitions.

SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle.

ACT I

SCENE I. An open place

[An open place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.]

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.

ALL

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

[Witches vanish.]

SCENE II. A camp near Forres

[Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.]

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.

SOLDIER.

Doubtful it stood;

As two spent swimmers that do cling together

And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald,–

Worthy to be a rebel,–for to that

The multiplying villainies 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 smok’d with bloody execution,

Like valour’s minion,

Carv’d out his passage, till he fac’d the slave;

And 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!

SOLDIER.

As whence the sun ‘gins his reflection

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