Macbeth: (De Jesus Play)
Macbeth: (De Jesus Play)
Macbeth: (De Jesus Play)
ACT I
SCENE IV
Macbeth's Castle
ENTER LADY MACBETH, reading a letter
LADY MACBETH:
Yet I do fear your nature, my husband.
It is too full of the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. I shall have to urge thee on.
ENTER MACBETH
MACBETH:
My dearest love. Duncan comes here tonight.
LADY MACBETH:
Tonight! And when does he leave?
MACBETH:
Tomorrow.
LADY MACBETH:
Never shall tomorrow come, my lord.
Your face is like a book where I may read strange matters.
Let no one else see. Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it. Leave all the rest to me.
EXIT MACBETH and LADY MACBETH
Servants bustle through preparing for the feast.
ENTER LADY MACBETH followed by DUNCAN. Lady Macbeth greets the king.
DUNCAN:
Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight.
Give me your hand. Conduct me to mind host; we love him highly
And shall continue our graces toward him.
By your leave, hostess.
EXIT ALL
ENTER MACBETH
MACBETH:
If it were done, would be well
To do it quickly...
The king is here in double trust:
First, I am his kinsman and his subject,
Then, I am his host.
I should shut the door against his murderer,
Not bear the knife myself
ENTER LADY MACBETH
MACBETH:
We will proceed no further in this business!
LADY MACBETH:
Would you live a coward in your own esteem,
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”?
MACBETH:
I pray thee, peace.
I dare do all that may become a man - no more.
LADY MACBETH:
What made you bring this idea to me?
When you did, THEN you were a man.
MACBETH:
And if we should fail?
LADY MACBETH:
Fail?
Are you afraid to claim your greatness?
Screw your courage to the sticking place!
MACBETH:
I am settled upon this terrible deed.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
ACT II
SCENE I
ENTER BANQUO AND FLEANCE
BANQUO:
How's the night, Fleance?
FLEANCE:
The moon is down, I have no heard the clock
BANQUO:
And she goes down at twelve
FLEANCE:
I take it, it's later, sir
ENTER MACBETH AND SERVANT, WITH A TORCH
BANQUO:
Who's there?
MACBETH:
A friend
BANQUO:
What, sir, you're still awake? The king's abed. By the way sir I dreamt last night of the three
weird sisters. To you they have shown some truth
EXIT BANQUO,SERVANT, AND FLEANCE
MACBETH:
Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch this. I have
thee not , and yet I see thee still
BELL SOUND
MACBETH:
I go and it’s done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to
heaven or to hell
EXIT MACBETH
ACT II
SCENE II
A pantomime of the drugging of the guards and the killing of Duncan. Duncan's body stays
onstage. A cry from off stage is heard
ENTER MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH
Macbeth carries the bloody dagger
LADY MACBETH:
Why did you bring these with you?Get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hands
MACBETH:
I'll go no more. I am afraid of what I have done
LADY MACBETH:
Don't think that! Give me the dagger!
KNOCKING
MACBETH:
Who is knocking? Why is it that every noise appalls me? What hands are these? This hand will
turn the blue sea into red
LADY MACBETH:
My hands are of your color but I shame to wear a heart so white
KNOCKING
LADY MACBETH:
I hear a knocking at the South entry. Let us go to our chamber. A little water clears us this deed.
How easy it is then!
MACBETH:
To know my deed, it would be best not to know myself
KNOCKING
MACBETH:
I wish I could wake Duncan with this knocking
EXIT MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH
ACT II
SCENE III
KNOCKING
Enter Macduff and Lennox from one side and Macbeth from the other
MACDUFF:
Good day sir, the Kung did command me to call you on time. I have almost forget the hour
MACBETH:
I will bring you to him. This is the way
EXIT MACDUFF
LENNOX:
The night has been unruly. Chimneys were blown down and strange screams of death
MACBETH:
It was a rough night
ENTER MACDUFF
MACDUFF:
Oh horror!horror!horror! Ring the alarm bell!Our King is murder and treason
ENTER MALCOLM AND DONALBAIN, LADY MACBETH and BANQUO
DONALBAIN:
What happened?
MACDUFF:
Your royal father's murdered
MALCOLM:
By whom
MACDUFF:
It seems that the men who pledged to guard him
LENNOX:
Those of his chamber, it seems have done it. Their hand and face are full of blood
MACBETH:
Oh I do repent me of my fury that I did kill them who could be loyal to the king and neutral, in a
moment?
LADY MACBETH:
Help me!
MACDUFF:
Look to the Lady
EXIT ALL EXCEPT MALCOLM AND DONALBAIN
MALCOLM:
What will you do? Let's not consort with them. I'll go to England
DONALBAIN:
I'll go to Ireland, our separated fortune shall keep us both safer where we are
MALCOLM:
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking
EXIT MALCOLM AND DONALBAIN
ACT III
SCENE I
ENTER BANQUO
BANQUO:
Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis all. As the weird sisters promised and I fear that
play'dst most for it
ENTER MACBETH
MACBETH:
Tonight we hold a Solemn supper, sir. And I'll request your presence
BANQUO:
Let your highness command upon me
MACBETH:
Don't fail our feast
BANQUO:
My Lord, I will not
EXIT BANQUO
MACBETH:
My fear about Banquo stick deeper. No son of mine succeeding if it be so, for Banquo's issue
have filled my mind; For them, the gracious Duncan have I murdered
ENTER MURDERERS
MACBETH:
You know that Banquo was your enemy
MURDERERS:
True, my Lord
MACBETH:
So he is mine
MURDERERS:
We shall, my Lord, perform what you command
EXIT ALL
ACT III
SCENE II
ENTER LADY MACBETH, MACBETH, LENNOX, ROSS, and LORDS.
Banquet begins and is pantomimed.
ENTER BANQUO'S GHOST
MACBETH:
Which of you has done this?
LENNOX:
What, my good lord?
MACBETH:
Thou can not say I did it. Never shake your gory locks at me!
ROSS:
Gentlemen, rise. His highness is not well.
EXIT BANQUO'S GHOST
EXIT ALL
ACT IV
SCENE I
The heath
FIRST WITCH:
How now, Hecate? You look angerly.
HECATE:
Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
To trade and traffic with Macbeth
In riddles and affairs of death;
And I, the mistress of your charms,
The close contriver of all harms,
Was never call'd to bear my part,
Or show the glory of our art?
FIRST WITCH:
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
SECOND WITCH:
Thrice, and once the hedgepig whined.
THIRD WITCH:
Harpier cries - 'Tis time, 'tis time!
ALL WITCHES:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
HECATE:
O well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share i' the gains;
And now about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
(They circle the cauldron.)
SECOND WITCH:
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
ENTER MACBETH
MACBETH:
How now, you secret midnight hags!
What is it you do?
ALL WITCHES:
A deed without a name!
ENTER APPARITIONS as they speak. GHOSTS of DUNCAN and BANQUO stand behind the
APPARATIONS
HECATE:
(drawing out the armored head and holding it aloft)
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;
Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.
BLOODY CHILD:
None of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
CROWNED CHILD:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.
EXIT APPARITIONS, GHOSTS and WITCHES
ENTER LENNOX
MACBETH:
Saw you the weird sisters?
LENNOX:
No, my lord! Macduff has fled to England!
MACBETH:
To England!
The castle of Macduff I will surprise;
Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
That trace him in his line.
EXIT ALL
ACT IV
SCENE II
England
ENTER MACDUFF and MALCOLM followed by ROSS
MACDUFF:
My children too?
My wife kill'd too?
ROSS:
I have said.
MACDUFF:
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny!
Not in the legions
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd
In evils to top Macbeth.
MALCOLM:
Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief
Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.
Come, go we to the king; our power is ready.
ACT V
SCENE I
Macbeth's castle
ENTER LADY MACBETH sleepwalking followed by SERVANT and DOCTOR. Lady
Macbeth mimes
washing her hands.
LADY MACBETH:
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
LADY:
She has spoke what she should not.
LADY MACBETH:
To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:
come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's
done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!
DOCTOR:
This disease is beyond my practice
More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God forgive us all! Look after her.
ACT V
SCENE II
Macbeth's castle
ENTER MACBETH
MACBETH:
Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman?
ENTER MESSENGER
MACBETH:
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
MESSENGER:
There is ten thousand...
MACBETH:
Geese?
MESSENGER:
Soldiers, sir!
MACBETH:
Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?
MESSENGER:
The English force, so please you.
MACBETH:
I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
Give me my armour.
A cry is heard from offstage.
EXIT MACBETH
ENTER MALCOLM and SOLDIERS with branches in front of their faces. They march across
the
stage.
ENTER MACBETH followed by MESSENGER
MESSENGER:
The queen is dead.
MACBETH:
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth cries out and runs to the battle.
ENTER MACDUFF, MALCOLM, LENNOX, and ROSS and
other SOLDIERS
Fighting across the stage.
EXIT ALL except MACDUFF and MACBETH
MACDUFF:
Yield thee, coward!
MACBETH:
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet.
EXIT MACDUFF and MACBETH, still fighting.
ENTER MALCOLM, ROSS, LENNOX, and SOLDIERS followed by MACDUFF with
MACBETH's
head.
MACDUFF:
Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper's cursed head
ALL:
Hail, King of Scotland!
MALCOLM:
So ends our tale of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.
EXIT ALL