![]() ![]() Music was playing and what looked like a parade was taking place. The grey light brightened until it was a white blaze. ‘Show his eyes and grieve his heart: Come like shadows, so depart.’ ‘I must know! If you deny me this then let an eternal curse fall on you! I want to know! I have to know! The voices came all at once: ‘Seek to know no more.’ ‘My heart aches to know one thing: tell me – if your magic extends that far – will Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?’ Excellent! And yet -’ Macbeth looked about for the invisible witches. That means King Macbeth will live the natural length of his life, only giving it up to old age. ![]() ‘Dead enemies, don’t rise out of your graves until Birnam wood walks. Excellent.’ He threw his head back and laughed. Birnam wood will never come to the castle at Dunsinane! What wonderful prophesies. Until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.’ Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: The apparition looked up into Macbeth’s eyes. ‘What’s this, looking like a prince? And wearing a crown? It had a crown on its head and a branch of a tree in its hand. ‘Then live, Macduff: why do I need to fear you? And yet I’ll make doubly sure. ‘Be bloody, bold and resolute: laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.’ Here’s another, More potent than the first.’Ī blood-smeared child began to take shape. ‘Whatever you are, thanks for the warning. ‘Beware Macduff: beware the Thane of Fife. ‘Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!’ the head cried. ‘He knows thy thought,’ a witch’s voice said. The weird sisters had disappeared and he seemed to be in a featureless place lit with a bland grey light.Ī head wearing a helmet hung in the air before him. He kicked and squirmed as the foul liquid trickled down his throat, but they were strong and he was unable to stop them. The other two squeezed his nose and held his mouth open. She filled the ladle and advanced on Macbeth. As she stirred she poured some liquid from a flask. Two of them swooped on him and held him down while the other plunged her hand into the foaming cauldron and pulled out a ladle. ‘Say, if thou’dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters.’ Even if the Devil himself gives you your powers, answer my questions.’ ‘I don’t care how you come by this dark knowledge you have, I just want some answers. ![]() ‘I call on you in the name of the evil magic you profess,’ he said. ‘A deed without a name,’ they said in unison. ‘What are you up to, you secret black and midnight hags?’ he said. He could make out the dark shapes of the sisters against he dull light of the coals beneath the cauldron. Macbeth stood at the entrance to the cave, bewildered as to how he had come to be there. They form an eerie choir which sings until one of the sisters shreiks, and they all scatter. They take the items one by and drop them into the cauldron.Ī resounding thundercrack, right in the cave, brings Hecate, riding on its back. They join hands and lean over with their faces in the vapour from the cauldron. Thunder rumbles and cracks in the distance.Įach hag fills her apron with items from the table. A table is covered with foul-smelling, disgusting items, some half recognisable and others unfamiliar: they slither or flap, give little leaps, or seem to breathe. In a dark cave deep below the mud and slime of a lonely heath, the weird sisters have gathered around a boiling cauldron. 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. ![]() Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]()
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