tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72487345293333240052024-03-08T04:00:31.693-08:00English 382: Shakespeare Group Blog for Winter 2014Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04873881917335067289noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-29424388928578399942014-04-11T13:16:00.000-07:002014-04-11T13:16:44.356-07:00Our Final EditionMacbeth: An Edition for the Common Man<br />
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Enjoy :)Amy Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419909838801232037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-66015848485396035462014-04-01T00:51:00.000-07:002014-04-08T21:28:51.853-07:00Final Point 7<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvszRlzui7gG80jiy67GaoP9JEF3FZt7gYmEJC1i4s4/edit#" target="_blank">Click here to access our edition.</a><br />
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In this edited edition, we have mostly just expanded. Although there are still a few blank spots, we include many of the pieces that were missing in the previous edition. We fixed a lot of the editing mistakes that were pointed out to us. We added some more and cleaned up the overall look of our annotations. We hope you enjoy our new and improved edition :)Amy Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419909838801232037noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-81311524915558267192014-03-17T08:29:00.000-07:002014-03-17T09:50:20.871-07:00Final Point 5: Our Protoype Edition<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simpleton's Introduction (Rough Draft)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth. One of Shakespeare's better-known plays, it's relatively short and easy to understand. If you haven't read it, here's a short list of what you'll encounter on your first go 'round: prophecies, kings, paranoid Scotsmen, Caesarian sections, and bearded women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth is the story of a king gone mad, a good man driven to murder by prophecy, paranoia, and ambition. As dense as the text can sometimes be with esoteric references to ancient and obscure events places, and persons, we've done our best to clarify <i>Macbeth</i> without compromising the original text, making it easier for the modern reader to understand. In this edition, we've compiled a collection of essays intended to explain and help expand the basic reader's understanding of the text, in addition to an annotated version of the text intended to familiarize readers with the meanings and contexts of archaic terms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout it all we'll be taking a look at the themes present in the play, the pathological and moral degradation of Macbeth, the role that Lady Macbeth plays in the carnage that follows. We'll show you the difference between Macduff and Macdonwald and Macbeth; what <i>not</i> to do when planning a total coup; we'll help you understand what martlets and jutties and coigns and limbecs are. In the end, it's our intent that you'll have a much better understanding of <i>Macbeth</i> than you did when you started.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When shall we three meet again? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That will be ere the set of the Sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As two spent swimmers that do cling together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And choke their art; the merciless Macdonwald</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Worthy to be a rebel, for to that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The multiplying villainies of nature</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles<sup>1</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of kearns and gallowglasses<sup>2</sup> is supplied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Fortune, on his damned quarry (quarrel) smiling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Showed like a rebel’s whore: But all’s too weak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For brave Macbeth (Well he deserves that name)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which smoked with bloody execution</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like valor’s minion<sup>3</sup> carved out his passage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till he faced the slave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which never (ne’er) shook hands nor bade farewell to him, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till he unseemed him from the nave to the chops<sup>4</sup> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And fixed his head upon our Battlements. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Captain</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As whence the Sun ‘gins his reflection, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shipwracking storms, and direful thunders;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So from that spring, whence comfort seem’d to come,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Discomfort swells: Mark, King of Scotland, mark, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No sooner Justice had, with Valor arm’d, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Compell’d these skipping Kernes to trust their heels, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the Norweigan Lord, surveying vantage<sup>5</sup>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With furbished Arms, and new supplies of men, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Began a fresh assault. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dismay’d not this our Captains, Macbeth and Banquo?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Captain<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, as sparrows, eagles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or the hare, the lion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If I say sooth, I must report they were</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As cannons over-charg’d with double cracks<sup>6</sup>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the Foe:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1:
Western Isles: the Hebrides and Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2:
Kearns and gallowglasses: Irish mercenary soldiers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3:
minion: darling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4:
nave to the chops: navel to the jaw<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5:
surveying vantage: seeing an opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6:
cracks: explosives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or memorize another Golgotha<sup>1</sup>, <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cannot tell: but I am faint, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My gashes cry for help.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They smack of Honor both: Go get him surgeons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Exit Captain<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enter Ross and Angus <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7248734529333324005" name="_GoBack"></a>Who comes here?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Malcolm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The worthy Thane<sup>2</sup> of Ross.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenox<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What a haste looks through his eyes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So should he look, that seems to speak things strange.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God save the King.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whence cam’st thou, worthy Thane? </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From Fife, great King,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where the Norwegian Banners float the sky, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And fan our people cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Norway himself<sup>3</sup>, with terrible numbers, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Afflicted by that most disloyal Traitor, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till that Bellona’s<sup>4</sup> Bridegroom, lapped in proof<sup>5</sup>,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Confronted him with self-comparisons, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Point against Point, rebellious Arm ‘gainst Arm, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Curbing his lavish spirit: and to conclude, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The victory fell on us. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Great happiness. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That now </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sweno the Norways’ King, craves composition<sup>6</sup>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nor would we deign him burial of his men, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till he disbursed, at Saint Colme’s Inch, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ten thousand dollars, to our general use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1: memorize
another Golgotha: make as memorable as Golgotha, or Calvary, the site of
Christ’s crucifixion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2:
Thane: a Scottish lord<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3:
Norway himself: the king of Norway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4:
Bellona’s bridegroom: Bellona is the Ancient Roman goddess of war; this phrase
refers to Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5:
lapped in proof: wearing strong (or proven) armor, protected by a lot of
experience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6:
composition: terms of surrender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">King</b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our bosom interest: Go pronounce his present death, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And with his former title greet Macbeth.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll see it done.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What he hath lost, Noble Macbeth hath won.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Exeunt.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Act 1 Scene 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thunder. Enter the
three Witches.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where hast thou been, Sister?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Killing swine.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sister, where thou?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And munched, and munched, and munched:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Give me,” quoth I.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Aroint thee<sup>1</sup>, Witch!” the rump-fed runnion<sup>2</sup>
cries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, Master o’ th’ Tiger:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But in a sieve I’ll thither sail, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And like a rat without a tail, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll give thee a wind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Th’art kind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I another.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I myself have all the other, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the very ports they blow, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the quarters that they know,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ th’ Shipman’s Card.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll drown him dry as hay:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sleep shall neither night nor day</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang upon his penthouse lid<sup>3</sup>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1:
Aroint thee: get thee hence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2:
rump-fed runnion: fat slut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3:
penthouse lid: eyelid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He shall live a man forbid:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weary sev’nights, nine times nine, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Though his bark cannot be lost, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look what I have.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Show me, show me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here I have a Pilot’s Thumb, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wracked, as homeward he did come. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Drum within.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Drum, a Drum:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth doth come.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weird Sisters<sup>1</sup>, hand in hand, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Posters<sup>2</sup> of the sea and land, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus do go about, about, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And thrice again, to make up nine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peace, the Charm’s wound up.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enter Macbeth and
Banquo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So foul and fair a day I have not seen.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How far is’t call’d to Soris? What are these, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So wither’d, and so wild in their attire,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That look not like th’Inhabitants o’ th’Earth, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And yet are on’t? Live you, or are you aught</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That man may question? You seem to understand me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By each at once her choppy finger laying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Upon her skinny lips; you should be women, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And yet your beards forbid me to interpret</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That you are so. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speak if you can: what are you?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All hail Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glamis.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All hail Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Cawdor.</span></div>
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weird Sisters: sisters of fate; prophecy-givers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Posters: Fast travelers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All hail Macbeth, that shall be King hereafter. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good Sir, why do you start and seem to fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things that do sound so fair? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ th’ name of truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are ye fantastical, or that indeed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which outwardly ye show? My Noble partner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You greet with present grace, and great prediction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of Noble having, and of Royal hope, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That he seems rapt withal<sup>1</sup>: to me you speak not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you can look into the seeds of time, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And say, which grain will grow, and which will not,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your favors, nor your hate.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hail!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hail!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hail!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2<sup>nd</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not so happy, yet much happier.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3<sup>rd</sup> witch <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So all hail Macbeth, and Banquo. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<sup>st</sup> witch<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo and Macbeth, all hail.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Say you imperfect speakers, tell me more:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Finell’s<sup>2</sup> death, I know, I am Thane of Glamis,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A prosperous Gentleman: And to be King </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stands not within the prospect of belief, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You owe this strange intelligence, or why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Upon this blasted heath you stop our way </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With such Prophetic greeting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speak, I charge you,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Witches vanish.</i></span></div>
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rapt withal: intrigued<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finnell: Macbeth’s father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Earth hath bubbles, as the Water has, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And these are of them: whither are they vanish’d?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Into the Air: and what seem’d corporal, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Melted, as breath into the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Would they had stay’d.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Were such things here, as we do speak about?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or have we eaten on the insane root<sup>1</sup>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That takes the reason prison?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your children shall be kings.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You shall be King.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To th’self-same tune, and words: who’s here? </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enter Ross and Angus.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The King hath happily reciev’d, Macbeth, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The news of they success: and when he reads </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thy personal venture in the Rebels fight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His wonders and his praises do contend, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which should be thine or his: silenc’d with that, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In viewing o’re the rest o’th’self-same day, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nothing afeard of what thy self didst make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Strange images of death, as thick as tale<sup>2<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can post with post<sup>3</sup>, and every one did bear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defense, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And poured them down before him. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Angus<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are sent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To give thee from our Royal Master thanks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only to harold thee into his sight, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not pay thee.</span></div>
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insane root: an herb that causes insanity <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thick as tale: as fast as they can be counted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3:
post with post: messenger after messenger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ross<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And for an earnest of a greater Honor, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In which addition<sup>1</sup>, hail most worthy Thane, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For it is thine. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What, can the Devil speak true?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Thane of Cawdor lives:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why do you dress me in borrowed Robes?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Angus <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who was the Thane, lives yet, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But under heavy judgment bears that life, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which he deserves to lose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whether he was combin’d with those of Norway, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or did line the Rebel with hidden help, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And vantage<sup>2</sup>; or that with both he labor’d </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In his Country’s wrack, I know not:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Treasons Capital, confess’d and prov’d,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have overthrown him.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[aside]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Glamis, and Thayne of Cawdor:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The greatest is behind<sup>3</sup>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[To Ross and Angus]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for your pains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[To Banquo]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you not hope your Children shall be Kings, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Promis’d no less to them.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banquo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That trusted home, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Might yet enkindle you unto the Crown, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ‘tis strange: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Instruments of Darkness tell us Truths, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In deepest consequence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cousins<sup>4</sup>, a word, I pray you.</span></div>
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addition: title<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vantage: assistance <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If good? Why do I yield to that suggestion, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whose horrid Image doth unfix my hair, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Chance will have me King,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why Chance may crown me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now Honors come upon him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like our strange<sup>2</sup> garments, cleave not to their
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come what come may,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time and the hour, runs through the roughest day<sup>2</sup>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where every day I turn the leaf, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[To Banquo]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Very gladly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till then enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Critical Essays</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="background-color: #fff0ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Amy) "</span></i><i style="background-color: #fff0ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth, the Murderers, and the Diminishing Parallel" by </span></i><i style="background-color: #fff0ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joan Hartwig</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This article discusses in particular the scene in which Macbeth hires the murderers to kill Banquo, and argues that the purpose of this scene is to shape the reader's view of Macbeth as a character and the play as a whole. Hartwig explains that Macbeth’s murder of Duncan had no real purpose except ambition; she thinks that this affected Macbeth’s murder order for Banquo in that he wanted it to have a larger and more meaningful purpose, which is why he comes up with lies against Banquo to tell the hired murderers. Hartwig also argues that the shallowness and indifference of the murderers highlights the complex feeling, passion, and morals going on within Macbeth, which helps readers to better understand and sympathize with his character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In our edition intended for high school seniors or college freshman, I think that this article would be fairly well placed. While it does mention other Shakespeare plays such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Othello</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamlet, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it primarily discusses issues within the play itself. I think that our audience could find this article interesting, and I believe it could help them understand the play at a deeper, but still understandable, level. I also think that this article could be a good introduction to the critical conversation going on around </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the academic world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Mossy) "Macbeth the Philosopher: Rethinking Context" by Michael Bristol</span></i></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This essay covers a number of topics, ranging from the necessity of context to understanding a text, to analysis of the text itself, in a void absent of historicist or contextual leanings. As useful as it may be to the initiated reader, it is the last third of this article, the analysis of Macbeth's emotions, pathology, and potential motivations, that will be most relevant to the plebeian reader. The analysis is by no means a definitive one, but it does not rely heavily on such texts or concepts as only English majors would be familiar with. This does not mean that the analysis is handed to the reader; they still have to work through and sort through the implications and connections on their own, but does so in such a manner as to still be accessible. As this edition is intended for high school seniors/college freshmen, the analysis section of this essay will provide a natural progression into the more advanced tiers of higher literature and analysis, without shoving them too hard into an amalgamation of terms and references that they have not encountered nor practiced yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Amy Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419909838801232037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-63383222621038440212014-02-28T22:19:00.004-08:002014-03-03T15:24:37.873-08:00Final Point 4<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth, the Murderers, and the Diminishing Parallel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joan Hartwig</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This article discusses in particular the scene in which Macbeth hires the murderers to kill Banquo, and argues that the purpose of this scene is to shape the reader's view of Macbeth as a character and the play as a whole. Hartwig explains that Macbeth’s murder of Duncan had no real purpose except ambition; she thinks that this affected Macbeth’s murder order for Banquo in that he wanted it to have a larger and more meaningful purpose, which is why he comes up with lies against Banquo to tell the hired murderers. Hartwig also argues that the shallowness and indifference of the murderers highlights the complex feeling, passion, and morals going on within Macbeth, which helps readers to better understand and sympathize with his character. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In our edition intended for high school seniors or college freshman, I think that this article would be fairly well placed. While it does mention other Shakespeare plays such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Othello</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamlet, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it primarily discusses issues within the play itself. I think that our audience could find this article interesting, and I believe it could help them understand the play at a deeper, but still understandable, level. I also think that this article could be a good introduction to the critical conversation going on around </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the academic world. </span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid--46fc45f-7c4b-fcee-39c0-0b20eb74c993" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lady Macbeth’s Indispensable Child</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marvin Rosenburg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this article, Rosenburg brings to light the fact that Lady Macbeth has “given suck,” which means that she has had at least one child, and suggests that, despite actual history, the father of this child in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is Macbeth himself. He argues that this child shapes the Macbeths’ motives throughout the play. Macbeth’s need to be assured that Banquo’s children will not take the throne is because Macbeth wants his own son to be king. Rosenburg argues that most of Macbeth’s murderous actions are not mostly for himself, but for his child. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think that this article would definitely be appropriate for our high school senior/college freshman audience. I myself found this article to be extremely interesting and mind-opening, and I believe that our audience would feel similarly. The article discusses only issues within the play itself that will help our audience read the play from an entirely different view. </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth the Philosopher: Rethinking Context</span></div>
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Nonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02741510872850717109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-9710793783261489412014-02-19T22:52:00.001-08:002014-02-19T22:52:14.627-08:00Our Vision: Educated Accessibility<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Work: Macbeth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Being as our edition will be oriented towards high school senior/college freshmen, the footnotes in our edition will largely be intended for the clarification of archaic or out-of-usage terms. The etymology is not our concern, but rather the meaning; for example we will assume that our audience has a basic knowledge of the Greek and Roman pantheons and will not waste footnote space on explaining that Venus is the goddess of love and that anything that appears in conjunction with her is likely to denote such a subject. We will explicate such terms as one would not commonly see today, such a “caitiff” or “puissance”, or terms that have changed in their meaning since the first printing or have different meanings within the text. The aim is to create an edition that does not overwhelm the reader with footnotes, but still provides clarification necessary to the greater enjoyment and comprehension of the text.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Because our audience is just getting introduced to Macbeth as high school seniors/college freshmen, we have decided to focus any “extra” materials on the text itself. We want these materials to help the reader better understand and comprehend the plot, characters, and themes in the play. We do not want our extra materials to be overly complex or to veer off into subjects that our readers would find confusing or irrelevant. So, while an essay on the character of Macbeth would be totally appropriate, an essay on the different ways Macbeth has been staged (with reviews of several actors who have played Macbeth) would not be. We want our edition to be friendly to new readers and to give readers enough information to become interested, but not overwhelmed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">People in our intended audience often go to websites such as Sparknotes for help with reading Shakespeare. We want our edition to be like a sophisticated Sparknotes: an academic edition that students can read to understand Shakespeare at a basic, but still intelligent, level. We want to use our edition to explain plot, characters, themes, symbols, motifs, etc. These are the main things that we believe our audience will be able to and want to understand this early in their Shakespeare knowledge. Our edition will be a sort of Sparknotes that students can reference in a formal academic paper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All three of the above points are there for one main reason: accessibility. Accessibility is our main goal for this edition. While reading editions intended for more experienced audiences in this class, we realized that many editions had things that even we, as English majors, had trouble understanding or felt were unnecessary. However, other editions seemed as though they were written for people far, far below our level. We want create an edition for the middle point in Shakespeare knowledge. We want this edition to be something that people can pick up and read with no fear; an edition that students can use to more easily learn a lot about a Shakespeare play.</span></span>Amy Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419909838801232037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-22962551740101042682014-02-10T22:28:00.001-08:002014-02-10T22:28:12.389-08:00Annotations and Their Intended Audiences<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The footnotes included in the Pelican Shakespeare Edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macbeth </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seem to be suited to a high school/casual reader. The footnotes, while helpful in understanding some of the archaic language in the text, were at times obvious. A few of the phrases the editors chose to define—for example “catalogue” is defined as “inventory, classification” and “mummy” means “mummified flesh”—were unnecessary. The footnotes became distracting and cumbersome at places like this. Other phrases, however, were very useful when trying to understand the text. (For example, I had no idea that “chawdron” means “guts.”) I think a basic understanding of the text is what this edition was ultimately trying to accomplish. The footnotes, while not abundant or particularly in-depth, seem geared toward giving the reader a clear picture of what is happening in the text and what the text, at its most basic level, means. That is why I think this text would be best suited for the casual high school reader who has no background in Shakespeare and who, with their teacher’s guidance, is slowly making their way through their first Shakespeare. </span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-0e6e26a2-1f9f-84aa-6b63-b694556c04f5" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As You Like It</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Bedford Shakespeares Series edition’s purpose is to help connect students with the text through exploration of other texts and documents of Shakespeare’s time. The edition seems catered to an undergraduate audience and is probably more suitable for a class or student more focused on Shakespeare’s works, perhaps more of an upper-level course. There are a significant amount of annotations, which seems appropriate for an undergraduate audience. College students would be more willing to put in the work (as opposed to say high school students) and seek for a fuller understanding of the text. The advantage for the undergraduate student is to be able to delve into the words of the text so as to understand the words as Shakespeare intended, to understand his word usage. However, some of the annotations might be already clear to an upper-level undergraduate student. The disadvantage of so many annotations might influence the reader to either become frustrated with so many footnotes or to see the meaning in the particular way in which the editor annotes it. In the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About This Volume </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">section of the edition, the editors note that they have “silently modernized spelling and punctuation...but we have also limited our editorial intervention to preserve their early modern flavor” (IX). All in all, it seems appropriate for their intended audience because it aids in the reader’s understanding of Shakespeare’s meaning in a context that’s slightly modernized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">There appear to be two schools of thought with regards to annotations: the first that footnotes be used to translate and explain the meaning of words that may have otherwise changed in their usage since the time they were written; and the second, that footnotes be used to provide commentary on a given phrase, or provide cultural and background context for the phrase/word. Naturally, the latter consumes far more space than the former, since the first method entails only clarification, while the second provides explication.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some editions employ only clarification, while others delve into explication, and a number employ both in a mix. Depending upon what one desires from reading an annotated text, one or the other may be preferable; say, for example, a college freshman or high school student is delving into a Shakespearean work; they will likely want the annotated version of the text that explains the multitude of words and phrases that they have not encountered yet. Conversely, a graduate student or a college senior may desire the edition of the text that annotates with cultural context and explications for certain phrases, as they likely understand the more basic terms present in the text and will find the explication annotations to be useful and citable in a paper or dissertation. Depending on one’s audience and the anticipated usage of the text in concern, one may prefer one style of annotation </span>Amy Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419909838801232037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248734529333324005.post-57661116274123249672014-01-29T08:16:00.000-08:002014-01-30T19:35:50.719-08:00Final Point 1: Audience, Audience, Audience<h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Pelican edition is most certainly designed for a beginning reader of Shakespeare. Though it does incorporate material from the most recent scholarships of the play, the introductory material consists of three main parts: “The Theatrical World,” “The Texts of Shakespeare,” and an “Introduction.” The reader is given a basic context of the theaters, plays, and playwrights in Shakespeare’s time. It gives a basic biography of Shakespeare and highlights key points of interest in scholarship, which a person more familiar with Shakespeare would have a ready knowledge of. The footnotes are more accessible to a lighter study of the play and not so indepth that they would discourage those new to Shakespeare. Although this edition indicates an audience less knowledgeable of Shakespeare, it is not so basic that it would intended for students younger than high school perhaps. It seems that the intended audience would be high school English classes or beginning college courses of Shakespeare or English literature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Arden Shakespeare edition goes much more in depth to the play and the context, indicating that its intended audience is one of a higher scholarship and understanding of Shakespeare. I couldn’t see this edition being used in anything less than an undergraduate course. The detailed introduction and appendices assume a knowledge of Shakespeare plays as well as history. It would be helpful for a graduate student or scholar of higher education in writing or research. It’s details about the history of productions and actors might also be helpful for directors or actors interested in a more comprehensive study of the play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This edition of the play, “A Case Study in Critical Controversy,” is direct in its intention towards an undergraduate audience. In the preface, the editors clearly state their purpose in “closing the gap between literary critical discourse and student discourse” in a humanities education. They include basic biography and context of the play as well as over twenty essays seeking to help place the reader in context of the play’s literary critical discourse. Their intent is to enable undergraduate students to be better equipped to enter into the literary discussion, perhaps aimed towards humanities students in general, not just those specifically interested or already studying Shakespeare.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Measure for Measure</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, <span style="font-size: x-small;">ed. Ivo Kamps and Karen Raber (Texts and Contexts)</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bedford Shakespeare Series edition of </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Measure for Measure </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aims to make the context of the play clear to undergraduate students by providing them with material written about the same time as Shakespeare’s play. The editors state that they expect the students reading to come to their own conclusions using the materials provided. The edition begins with a brief introduction (about 15 pages long), followed by the play. The play is then followed by a second part entitled “Cultural Contexts.” This “Part Two” is divided into 4 chapters: “Governance”; “Marriage, Sex, and Society”; “The Underworld”; and “Geography and Religion”. Each of these chapters begin with a critical overview and are followed by contextual material. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This edition seems effective in its claim towards helping students think about the text. There is a lot of information, but the way the book is organized would make it easy for a professor to assign, or a student to go to, the information they are interested in. It would provide a useful starting point for papers where research is required and overall seems an appropriate text for its undergraduate audience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Norton Critical Edition of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard III</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is essentially geared toward an undergraduate audience. The main purpose of this edition is to provide the reader with as wide a scholarly view of the play as possible, while still remembering that its readership is still in the education process and would probably not describe themselves as professional “Shakespeare scholars.” Things that a Shakespeare scholar might know, but that the average undergraduate student probably would not, are well taught and explained. With the vast number of scholarly essays and articles taking up more than half of the entire book, the Norton would probably not be appropriate for an average audience only interested in the play itself, but would successfully aid an undergraduate student with their learning, a paper, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As undergraduate students seeking to develop a greater understanding and connection with Shakespeare, we want to focus on developing an edition thats more accessible and beneficial for an undergraduate audience. Having dealt with different editions and taken classes that teach Shakespeare’s works, we want to create a edition that we would like to use in a college course.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04873881917335067289noreply@blogger.com0