Table of Contents

SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE; ELIZABETHAN WORLD VIEW; WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT; INTRODUCTION TO MACBETH; The major themes; 1 Good and evil; 2 Appearances often hide reality; 3 Reversal of values; 4 The overthrow of the natural order; 5 The effect of ambition on people; 6 The importance of loyalty and honour in a society; GLOSSARY AND TERMS; THE PLAY IN PICTURES; THE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY; ACT I; Scene I [The heath)]; Scene II [A camp]; Scene III [A heath]; Scene IV [Forres. A room in the palace]; Scene V [Inverness: A room in Macbeth's castle]; Scene VI [Inverness: Before the castle]; Scene VII [Inverness: A room in the palace]; ACT II; Scene I [Inverness: A court within the castle]; Scene II [Within the castle]; Scene III [The same]; Scene IV [Outside the castle]; ACT III; Scene I [Forres. A room in the palace]; Scene II [Forres. Another room]; Scene III [Forres. A park, with a road leading to the palace]; Scene IV [A room of state in the palace]; Scene V [The heath]; Scene VI [Forres. The palace]; ACT IV; Scene I [A dark cave. In the middle, a boiling cauldron]; Scene II [Fife. A room in Macduff's castle]; Scene III [England. A room in the king's palace]; ACT V; Scene I [Dunsinane. A room in the castle]; Scene II [The country near Dunsinane]; Scene III [Dunsinane. A room in the castle]; Scene IV [Country near Dunsinane. A wood in view]; Scene V [Dunsinane. Within the castle]; Scene VI [A plain before the castle]; Scene VII [Dunsinane. Another part of the plain]; Scene VIII [Another part of the field]; Scene IX [Within the castle]