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The full text of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets side-by-side with translations into modern English. No fear Shakespeare is available online and in book form at barnesandnoble.com. Understand Shakespeare's plays and sonnets with SparkNotes' translations, plot summaries, character lists, quotes, lists of themes and symbols, and more.
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.
Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew. Slivered in the moon’s eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips, 30 Finger of birth-strangled babe. Ditch-delivered by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab. Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Macbeth is one of the most complex and fascinating characters in Shakespeare's plays. He is a brave warrior who becomes a ruthless tyrant, driven by his ambition and influenced by his wife and the witches. In this SparkNotes page, you will find a detailed analysis of his personality, motivations, actions, and fate.
The Three Witches. Throughout the play, the witches—referred to as the “weird sisters” by many of the characters—lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. In part, the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers, but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific ...
A summary of Themes in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. ... SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription.
Come, you spirits. Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’. Lady Macbeth speaks these words in Act 1, scene 5, lines 36–52, as she awaits the arrival of King Duncan at her castle.
