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Black Spirits and White
Red Spirits and Gray
Mingle, mingle, mingle
You that mingle may
Meeeeeeioooooowwwww
Round, A- Round, A – Round
About …….. About
All ill come running in
All good keep out
Meeeeeeioooooowwwww
(Source: Thomas Middleton 1580 – 1627)
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Macbeth
SCENE I. A desert place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
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.
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RESOURCE 3
The Three Witches were blamed for/and associated with anything that could
go wrong.
In Elizabethan times people believed that witches could:
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Speak with the devil and with his help they could communicate with the
dead
Foretell the future
Make people fall ill by using spells and potions
Fly through the air
Make themselves invisible
Use animals such as cats as disguises
Cause bad weather and storms affecting ships at sea and destroying
crops
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(See page 62)
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Witches’ prophesies
First Witch
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
Second Witch
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
First Witch (to Banquo)
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!
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RESOURCE 6
Letter to Lady Macbeth
To my dear wife
We won the battle against the enemy of Scotland. I have some exciting news
to tell you. When Banquo and I were returning from the battle, we met three
very strange women on the heath. They seemed to be women, but they had
beards!
You’ll never guess what they said- that I would be Thane of Cawdor! If that
wasn’t enough, they also said I will be king. And then two men arrived to tell
me that Duncan was making me Thane of Cawdor! Can you believe that?
The previous Thane of Cawdor has been executed because he was a traitor!
Well, if I am to be king, just think what that will make you- my queen!
I love you so much that I really wanted to share this with you. I’ll be with you
soon.
I have sent this ahead, so that you know everything that has happened.
Your faithful husband,
Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis,
That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone.'
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RESOURCE 8
(Macbeth has just murdered King Duncan)
Enter MACBETH
My husband!
MACBETH
I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
LADY MACBETH
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Did not you speak?
MACBETH
When?
LADY MACBETH
Now.
MACBETH
As I descended?
LADY MACBETH
Ay.
MACBETH
Hark!
Who lies i' the second chamber?
LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
MACBETH
This is a sorry sight.
Looking on his hands
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DUNCAN
MACBETH
I am King of Scotland
I am Thane of Glamis
I have been appointed
by God (Divine Right)
I am a nobleman
I am ambitious
MALCOLM
I am the eldest son
of Duncan
I have a brother
called Donalbain
I am a popular king
My people love and
respect me
I am a captain in King
Duncan´s army
I am fearless in battle
(a brave warrior and
I have two sons,
Malcolm and Donalbain leader)
I am related to Macbeth
I am also a good and
loyal friend to Macbeth
and Lady Macbeth
My father
announces that I am
Prince of
Cumberland and
therefore will
succeed Duncan
I flee to England
when my father is
murdered
I am crowned King
of Scotland at the
end of the play
MACDUFF
I am a Scottish
nobleman, Thane
of Fife
I was born by
caesarean section
I discover that the
king of Scotland
has been
murdered
My wife and
children are
brutally slain
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BANQUO
I am a captain in Duncan’s
army
I am a loyal friend of
Macbeth
I fought alongside Macbeth
in the battle against the
Norwegians
I was there when the initial
prophecies were made to
Macbeth by the witches
My descendants shall be
kings
I have a son called Fleance
I am murdered and left in a
ditch
I appear as a ghost at
Macbeth’s banquet
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LADY MACBETH
I know that my husband
loves me and will do
anything for me
I am very ambitious for
my husband
I lack the morals of my
husband
FLEANCE
I am the son of
Banquo
I manage to escape
when my father is
murdered
I am the first in a line
of kings prophesied
by the Three Witches
I try to persuade
Macbeth to murder King
Duncan
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