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    Macbeth, with line numbers
    Macbeth, with line numbers
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    Macbeth, with line numbers

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    The classic tragedy. According to Wikipedia: "Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606 with 1607 being the very latest possible date. The earliest account of a performance of what was likely Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book for a specific performance. Shakespeare's principal sources for the tragedy are the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455389568
    Macbeth, with line numbers
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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      Macbeth, with line numbers - William Shakespeare

      Macbeth By William Shakespeare

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 booksS. E. Book Publishing, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Other tragedies by William Shakespeare:

      Antony and Cleopatra

      Coriolanus

      Hamlet

      Julius Caesar

      King Lear

      Othello

      Romeo and Juliet

      Timon of Athens

      Titus Andronicus

      Troilus and Cressida

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      Dramatis Personae

      Macbeth

      Act I

      Scene I A desert 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 Before Macbeth's castle.

      Scene VII Macbeth's castle.

      Act II

      Scene I Court of Macbeth's 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 Another part of the field.

      Scene VIII Another part of the field.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Duncan, king of Scotland.

      His Sons

      Malcolm

      Donalbain |

      Generals of the king's army

      Macbeth

      Banquo

      Noblemen of Scotland

      Macduff

      Lennox

      Ross

      Menteith

      Angus

      Caithness

      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:)

      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 A desert place.

       [Thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES]

      (1) 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.

      (10) 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 bleeding SERGEANT]

      (1) 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 merciless Macdonwald--

      (10) 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 he deserves that name--

       Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,

       Which smoked with bloody execution,

       Like valour's minion carved out his passage

      (20) 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!

      SERGEANT As whence the sun 'gins his reflection

       Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,

       So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come

       Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:

       No sooner justice had with valour arm'd

      (30) Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,

       But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,

       With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men

       Began a fresh assault.

      DUNCAN Dismay'd not this

       Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

      SERGEANT Yes;

       As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.

       If I say sooth, I must report they were

       As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they

       Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:

       Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,

      (40) Or memorise another Golgotha,

       I cannot tell.

       But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

      DUNCAN So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;

       They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.

       [Exit SERGEANT, attended]

       Who comes here?

       [Enter ROSS]

      MALCOLM                   The worthy thane of Ross.

      LENNOX What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look

       That seems to speak things strange.

      ROSS God save the king!

      DUNCAN Whence camest thou, worthy thane?

      ROSS From Fife, great king;

       Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky

      (50) And fan our people cold. Norway himself,

       With terrible numbers,

       Assisted by that most disloyal traitor

       The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;

       Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,

       Confronted him with self-comparisons,

       Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.

       Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,

       The victory fell on us.

      DUNCAN Great happiness!

      ROSS That now

       Sweno, the Norways'

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