Macbeth, with line numbers E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: Seltzer Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 94

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

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."

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Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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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' king, craves composition:

(60) Nor would we deign him burial of his men

 Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch

 Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

DUNCAN No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive

 Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,

 And with his former title greet Macbeth.

ROSS I'll see it done.

DUNCAN What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.

 [Exeunt]

SCENE III A heath near Forres.

 [Thunder. Enter the three Witches]

(1) FIRST WITCH Where hast thou been, sister?

SECOND WITCH Killing swine.

THIRD WITCH Sister, where thou?

FIRST WITCH A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,

 And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--

 'Give me,' quoth I:

 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.

 Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:

 But in a sieve I'll thither sail,

 And, like a rat without a tail,

(10) I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.

SECOND WITCH I'll give thee a wind.

FIRST WITCH Thou'rt kind.

THIRD WITCH And I another.

FIRST WITCH I myself have all the other,

 And the very ports they blow,

 All the quarters that they know

 I' the shipman's card.

 I will drain him dry as hay:

 Sleep shall neither night nor day

(20) Hang upon his pent-house lid;

 He shall live a man forbid:

 Weary se'nnights nine times nine

 Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:

 Though his bark cannot be lost,

 Yet it shall be tempest-tost.

 Look what I have.

SECOND WITCH Show me, show me.

FIRST WITCH Here I have a pilot's thumb,

 Wreck'd as homeward he did come.

 [Drum within]

(30) THIRD WITCH A drum, a drum!

 Macbeth doth come.

ALL The weird sisters, hand in hand,

 Posters of the sea and land,

 Thus do go about, about:

 Thrice to thine and thrice to mine

 And thrice again, to make up nine.

 Peace! the charm's wound up.

 [Enter MACBETH and BANQUO]

MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these

(40) So wither'd and so wild in their attire,

 That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,

 And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught

 That man may question? You seem to understand me,

 By each at once her chappy finger laying

 Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,

 And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

 That you are so.

MACBETH                   Speak, if you can: what are you?

FIRST WITCH All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!

SECOND WITCH All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!

(50) THIRD WITCH All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!

BANQUO Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear

 Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,

 Are ye fantastical, or that indeed

 Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner

 You greet with present grace and great prediction

 Of noble having and of royal hope,

 That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.

 If you can look into the seeds of time,

 And say which grain will grow and which will not,

(60) Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear

 Your favours nor your hate.

FIRST WITCH Hail!

SECOND WITCH Hail!

THIRD WITCH Hail!

FIRST WITCH Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.

SECOND WITCH Not so happy, yet much happier.

THIRD WITCH Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:

 So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!

FIRST WITCH Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!

(70) MACBETH Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:

 By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;

 But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,

 A prosperous gentleman; and to be king

 Stands not within the prospect of belief,

 No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence

 You owe this strange intelligence? or why

 Upon this blasted heath you stop our way

 With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.

 [Witches vanish]

BANQUO The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,

(80) And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?

MACBETH Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted

 As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!

BANQUO Were such things here as we do speak about?

 Or have we eaten on the insane root

 That takes the reason prisoner?

MACBETH Your children shall be kings.

BANQUO You shall be king.

MACBETH And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?

BANQUO To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?

 [Enter ROSS and ANGUS]

ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth,

(90) The news of thy success; and when he reads

 Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,

 His wonders and his praises do contend

 Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,

 In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,

 He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,

 Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,

 Strange images of death. As thick as hail

 Came post with post; and every one did bear

 Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,

 And pour'd them down before him.

(100) ANGUS We are sent

 To give thee from our royal master thanks;

 Only to herald thee into his sight,

 Not pay thee.

ROSS And, for an earnest of a greater honour,

 He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:

 In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!

 For it is thine.