Macbeth

MACBETH
By

William Shakespeare

A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication

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MACBETH
ByWilliam Shakespeare
(written about 1606)

DRAMATIS PERSONAE DUNCAN: king of Scotland. MALCOLM & DONALBAIN: his sons. MACBETH & BANQUO: generals of the king’s army. MACDUFF, LENNOX, ROSS, MENTEITH, ANGUS and CAITHNESS: noblemen 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. (Son:) An English Doctor. (Doctor:) A Scotch Doctor. (Doctor:) 3

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 & ii

MACBETH
ACT I
SCENE I: A desert 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 thebattle’s lost and won. Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch: Where the place? Second Witch: Upon the heath.

Second Witch: Paddock calls. Third Witch: Anon. 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 bleedingSergeant.] 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 mercilessMacdonwald— 4

Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch: I come, Graymalkin!

Macbeth Act I, scene ii

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 hedeserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valor’s minion carved out his passage 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!

DUNCAN: Dismay’d not this Our captains,...