2015年7月31日 · Macbeth, set primarily in Scotland, mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder. 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.

The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (/ m ə k ˈ b ɛ θ /), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. [ a ] It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambitions and power.

2025年2月4日 · Macbeth, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623. The play chronicles Macbeth’s seizing of power and subsequent destruction, both his rise and his fall the result of blind ambition.

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[A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH,] [p]ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants] Macbeth. You know your own degrees; sit down: at first And last the hearty welcome. Lords. Thanks to your majesty. Macbeth. Ourself will mingle with society, 1275 And play the humble host. Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time We will require her ...

When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. That will be ere the set of sun. Where the place? Upon the heath. There to meet with Macbeth. I come, Graymalkin! Paddock calls. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. SCENE II.

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Macbeth has become manic, cruel, and haughty—many of his men desert to Malcolm's side. In Birnam Wood, Malcolm and his generals devise a strategy to hide their numbers—they cut branches to hold up in front of them. As Macbeth prepares for the siege, Lady Macbeth dies, perhaps of suicide.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth supplied its audience with a sensational view of witches and supernatural apparitions and equally sensational accounts of bloody battles in which, for example, a rebel was “unseamed . . . from the nave [navel] to th’ chops [jaws].”

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1605) Scenes (28 total) Complete Text Act I. Scene 1. A desert place. Scene 2. A camp near Forres. Scene 3. A heath near Forres. Scene 4. Forres. The palace. Scene 5. Inverness. Macbeth’s castle. Scene 6. Before Macbeth’s castle. Scene 7. Macbeth’s castle. Act II. Scene 1. Court of Macbeth’s castle. Scene 2. The ...