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Macbeth. William Shakespeare Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Macbeth. William Shakespeare. Open Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Contents Bookshelf on CD at http://collegebookshelf.net Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. http://collegebookshelf.net About the author William Shakespeare (National Portrait Gallery) William Shakespeare Shakespeare's influence on the English-speaking world is (born April 1564, baptised reflected in the ready recognition afforded many quotations April 26, 1564, died April from Shakespearean plays (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/ 23, 1616 Julian calendar, Shakespeare), the titles of works based on Shakespearean May 3, 1616 Gregorian phrases, and the many adaptations of his plays. Other calendar) is widely consid- indicators of contemporary influence are his inclusion in ered to have been the the top 10 of the "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by greatest writer the English the BBC, the frequent productions based on his work, such language has ever known. as the BBC Television Shakespeare, and the success of the As a playwright, he wrote fictional account of his life in the 1998 film Shakespeare in not only some of the most Love. powerful tragedies, but also many comedies. He also wrote 154 sonnets and several major poems, some of which are considered to be the most brilliant pieces of English literature ever written, because of Shakespeare's ability to rise beyond the narrative and describe the inner- most and the most profound aspects of human nature. He is believed to have written most of his works between 1585 and 1613, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are not accurately known. There was no standardized spelling in Elizabethan England, and Shakespeare's name is often rendered in contemporary documents as Shakespear, Shaksper or even Shaxberd. Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. http://collegebookshelf.net Contents Persons Represented. Click on a number in the list Act 1. to go to the first page of that act. Act 2. Note: Act 3. The best way to read this Act 4. ebook is in Full Screen mode: Act 5. click View, Full Screen to set Adobe Acrobat to Full Screen View. This mode allows you to use Page Down to go to the next page, and affords the best reading view. Press Escape to exit the Full Screen View. NOTICE Copyright © 2004 thewritedirection.net Please note that although the text of this ebook is in the public domain, this pdf edition is a copyrighted publication. FOR COMPLETE DETAILS, SEE COLLEGEBOOKSHELF.NET/COPYRIGHTS Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. http://collegebookshelf.net 1 Macbeth. Persons Represented DUNCAN, King of Scotland. MALCOLM, his Son. SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the DONALBAIN, his Son. rest of the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle. 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. Act 1. MENTEITH, Nobleman of Scotland. ANGUS, Nobleman of Scotland. Scene I. CAITHNESS, Nobleman of Scotland. An open Place. Thunder and Lightning. FLEANCE, Son to Banquo. [Enter three Witches.] SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English Forces. YOUNG SIWARD, his Son. First Witch SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth. When shall we three meet again? BOY, Son to Macduff. In thunder, lightning, or in rain? An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An Old Man. Second Witch When the hurlyburly’s done, Lady Macbeth. When the battle’s lost and won. Lady Macduff. Third Witch Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. That will be ere the set of sun. HECATE,and three Witches. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and First Witch Messengers. Where the place? The Ghost of Banquo and several other Apparitions. Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 2 http://collegebookshelf.net 3 Second Witch As two spent swimmers that do cling together Upon the heath. And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald,— Worthy to be a rebel,—for to that Third Witch The multiplying villainies of nature There to meet with Macbeth. Do swarm upon him,—from the Western isles First Witch Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; I come, Graymalkin! And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, ALL. Show’d like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak; Paddock calls:—anon:— For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,— Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Hover through the fog and filthy air. Which smok’d with bloody execution, Like valor’s minion, [Witches vanish.] Carv’d out his passag tTill he fac’d the slave; And ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Scene II. Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, A Camp near Forres. And fix’d his head upon our battlements. [Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, Duncan with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.] O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Duncan Soldier What bloody man is that? He can report, As whence the sun ‘gins his reflection As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break; The newest state. So from that spring, whence comfort seem’d to come Malcolm Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark: This is the sergeant No sooner justice had, with valor arm’d, Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels, ‘Gainst my captivity.—Hail, brave friend! But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, Say to the king the knowledge of the broil With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men, As thou didst leave it. Began a fresh assault. Soldier Duncan Doubtful it stood; Dismay’d not this Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 4 http://collegebookshelf.net 5 Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? From Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky Soldier And fan our people cold. Yes; Norway himself, with terrible numbers, As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. Assisted by that most disloyal traitor If I say sooth, I must report they were The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks; Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof, So they Confronted him with self-comparisons, Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: Point against point rebellious, arm ‘gainst arm, Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude, Or memorize another Golgotha, The victory fell on us. I cannot tell:— But I am faint; my gashes cry for help. Duncan Great happiness! Duncan So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; Ross They smack of honor both.—Go, get him surgeons. That now [Exit Soldier, attended.] Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition; Nor would we deign him burial of his men Who comes here? Till he disbursed, at Saint Colme’s-inch, Malcolm Ten thousand dollars to our general use. The worthy Thane of Ross. Duncan Lennox No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look Our bosom interest:—go pronounce his present death, That seems to speak things strange. And with his former title greet Macbeth. [Enter Ross.] Ross Ross I’ll see it done. God save the King! Duncan Duncan What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. Whence cam’st thou, worthy thane? [Exeunt.] Ross Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 6 http://collegebookshelf.net 7 Scene III. I will drain him dry as hay: A heath. Sleep shall neither night nor day [Thunder. Enter the three Witches.] Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid: First Witch Weary seven-nights nine times nine Where hast thou been, sister? Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine: Second Witch Though his bark cannot be lost, Killing swine. Yet it shall be tempest-tost.— Look what I have. Third Witch Sister, where thou? Second Witch Show me, show me. First Witch A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, First Witch And mounch’d, and mounch’d, and mounch’d:—”Give me,” quoth I: Here I have a pilot’s thumb, “Aroint thee, witch!” the rump-fed ronyon cries. Wreck’d as homeward he did come. Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger: [Drum within.] But in a sieve I’ll thither sail, Third Witch And, like a rat without a tail, A drum, a drum! I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do. Macbeth doth come. Second Witch ALL. I’ll give thee a wind. The weird sisters, hand in hand, First Witch Posters of the sea and land, Thou art kind. Thus do go about, about: Third Witch Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And I another. And thrice again, to make up nine:— Peace!—the charm’s wound up. First Witch [Enter Macbeth and Banquo.] I myself have all the other: And the very ports they blow, Macbeth All the quarters that they know So foul and fair a day I have not seen. I’ the shipman’s card. Banquo Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 8 http://collegebookshelf.net 9 How far is’t call’d to Forres?—What are these First Witch-.. So wither’d, and so wild in their attire, Hail! That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth, Second Witch-.
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