They comfort him with ambiguous promises.Another nobleman, Macduff, rides to England to join Duncan’s older son, Malcolm. Macbeth determines to consult the Weïrd Sisters again. At a royal banquet that evening, Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost appear covered in blood. Fearing that Banquo’s descendants will, according to the Weïrd Sisters’ predictions, take over the kingdom, Macbeth has Banquo killed. When Macbeth arrives at his castle, he and Lady Macbeth plot to assassinate King Duncan, soon to be their guest, so that Macbeth can become king.After Macbeth murders Duncan, the king’s two sons flee, and Macbeth is crowned. Three “Weïrd Sisters” appear to Macbeth and his comrade Banquo after a battle and prophesy that Macbeth will be king and that the descendants of Banquo will also reign. Entire Play Macbeth, set primarily in Scotland, mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder.Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Shakes so my single state of man that function My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, If good, why do I yield to that suggestionĪnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Of the imperial theme.–I thank you, gentlemen.Ĭommencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: The instruments of darkness tell us truths, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to meīesides the thane of Cawdor. He labour’d in his country’s wreck, I know not īut treasons capital, confess’d and proved,ĭo you not hope your children shall be kings, With hidden help and vantage, or that with both With those of Norway, or did line the rebel The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: To give thee from our royal master thanks Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defence,
As thick as hailĬame post with post and every one did bear Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, In viewing o’er the rest o’ the selfsame day, Which should be thine or his: silenced with that, Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, The news of thy success and when he reads Were such things here as we do speak about? Into the air and what seem’d corporal meltedĪs breath into the wind. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,Īnd these are of them.
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. You owe this strange intelligence? or why Stands not within the prospect of belief, Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:īy Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis īut how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.Īnd say which grain will grow and which will not, You greet with present grace and great prediction Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
Things that do sound so fair? I’ the name of truth,
Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,Īnd yet your beards forbid me to interpretĪll hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!Īll hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!Īll hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! That man may question? You seem to understand me, That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth,Īnd yet are on’t? Live you? or are you aught How far is’t call’d to Forres? What are these Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger: ‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed ronyon cries. A heath near Forres.Ī sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, All Acts and scenes are listed on the Macbeth text page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. Shakespeare’s complete original Macbeth text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one scene per page. This page contains the original text of Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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