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Macbeth
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Macbeth explores prophecy, ambition, guilt, tyranny, violence, and the price of power.
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare builds the work around prophecy, ambition, guilt, tyranny, violence, and the price of power, making its period, characters, arguments, and images vivid for modern readers.
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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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.
Preview chapterSCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle.Preview
SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle.
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- 01Full text
- 02Dramatis Personæ
- 03SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle.
- 04ACT I SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and Lightning.
- 05ACT I
- 06SCENE I. An open Place.
- 07SCENE II. A Camp near Forres.
- 08SCENE III. A heath.
- 09SCENE IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
- 10SCENE V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle.
- 11SCENE VI. The same. Before the Castle.
- 12SCENE VII. The same. A Lobby in the Castle.
- 13ACT II SCENE I. Inverness. Court within the Castle.
- 14ACT II
- 15SCENE I. Inverness. Court within the Castle.
- 16SCENE II. The same.
- 17SCENE III. The same.
- 18SCENE IV. The same. Without the Castle.
- 19ACT III SCENE I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
- 20ACT III
- 21SCENE I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
- 22SCENE II. The same. Another Room in the Palace.
- 23SCENE III. The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.
- 24SCENE IV. The same. A Room of state in the Palace.
- 25SCENE V. The heath.
- 26SCENE VI. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
- 27ACT IV SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling. Thunder.
- 28ACT IV
- 29SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling.
- 30SCENE II. Fife. A Room in Macduff’s Castle.
- 31SCENE III. England. Before the King’s Palace.
- 32ACT V SCENE I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
- 33ACT V
- 34SCENE I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
- 35SCENE II. The Country near Dunsinane.
- 36SCENE III. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
- 37SCENE IV. Country near Dunsinane: a Wood in view.
- 38SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
- 39SCENE VI. The same. A Plain before the Castle.
- 40SCENE VII. The same. Another part of the Plain.
- 41SCENE VIII. The same. Another part of the field.
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