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Burton Raffel (1928-2015) was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain. Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, and was the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

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Macbeth

Yale University Press

Contents

About This Book................................................ixIntroduction...................................................xixSome Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage.....................xxxixMacbeth........................................................1An Essay by Harold Bloom.......................................169Further Reading................................................205Finding List...................................................209

Chapter One

Duncan (king of Scotland) Malcolm (the king's older son and heir) Donalbain (the king's younger son) Macbeth (Scottish nobleman and a general of the king's army) Banquo (Scottish nobleman and a general of the king's army) Fleance (Banquo's son) Macduff (Scottish nobleman) Boy (Macduff's son) Lennox (Scottish nobleman) Ross (Scottish nobleman) Menteith (Scottish nobleman) Angus (Scottish nobleman) Caithness (Scottish nobleman) Siward (Earl of Northumberland and English general) Young Siward (his son) Seyton (servant to Macbeth) Doctor (English) Doctor (Scottish) Soldier Porter Old Man Murderers Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Gentlewoman (servant to Lady Macbeth) Hecat (Hecate) Witches Apparitions Lords, Soldiers, Servants, Messengers

Act 1 SCENE 1 An open place, near Forres

LIGHTNING AND THUNDER. ENTER Three Witches

Witch 1 When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Witch 2 When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

Witch 3 That will be ere the set of sun. 5

Witch 1 Where the place?

Witch 2 Upon the heath.

Witch 3 There to meet with Macbeth.

Witch 1 I come, Graymalkin!

Witch 2 Paddock calls.

Witch 3 Anon!

All Fair is foul, and foul is fair. 10 Hover through the fog and filthy air.

EXEUNT

SCENE 2

A battlefield camp, near Forres

ALARUM WITHIN. ENTER Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with Servants and a bleeding Sergeant

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. 5 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- Worthy o be a rebel, for to that 10

The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him-from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, And Fortune, on his damnd quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak, 15 For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valor's minion carvd out his passage Till he faced the slave-Which 20 ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th'chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements.

Duncan O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!

Sergeant As whence the sun 'gins his reflection, 25 Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seemed to come Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark: No sooner justice had, with valor armed, Compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels, But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, With furbished arms and new supplies of men Began a fresh assault.

Duncan Dismayed not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Sergeant Yes - As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. 35 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, Or memorize another Golgotha, 40 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 honor both. Go get him surgeons.

EXIT Sergeant, attended ENTER Ross, with Angus

Who comes here?

Malcolm The worthy Thane of Ross. 45

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 cam'st thou, worthy Thane?

Ross From Fife, great king, Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. 50 Norway himself, with terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor, The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof, Confronted him with self comparisons, 55 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, Nor would we deign him burial of his men 60 Till he disbursd, 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. 65

Ross I'll see it done.

Duncan What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

EXEUNT

SCENE 3 A heath

THUNDER. ENTER THE THREE Witches

Witch 1 Where hast thou been, sister?

Witch 2 Killing swine.

Witch 3 Sister, where thou?

Witch 1 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched, and munched, and munched. 5 "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...