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Macbeth

William Shakespeare

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ACT I Scene I. An open Place. Scene II. A Camp near Forres. Scene III. A heath. Scene IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace. Scene V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle. Scene VI. The same. Before the Castle. Scene VII. The same. A Lobby in the Castle.…

Details

  • AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #1533
  • Length17,053 words · 1h 08m of reading
  • Chapters27
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

27 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Dramatis Personæ
  2. 02SCENE I. An open Place.
  3. 03SCENE II. A Camp near Forres.
  4. 04SCENE III. A heath.
  5. 05SCENE IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
  6. 06SCENE V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle.
  7. 07SCENE VI. The same. Before the Castle.
  8. 08SCENE VII. The same. A Lobby in the Castle.
  9. 09SCENE I. Inverness. Court within the Castle.
  10. 10SCENE II. The same.
  11. 11SCENE III. The same.
  12. 12SCENE IV. The same. Without the Castle.
  13. 13SCENE I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
  14. 14SCENE IV. The same. A Room of state in the Palace.
  15. 15SCENE V. The heath.
  16. 16SCENE VI. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
  17. 17SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling.
  18. 18SCENE II. Fife. A Room in Macduff’s Castle.
  19. 19SCENE III. England. Before the King’s Palace.
  20. 20SCENE I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
  21. 21SCENE II. The Country near Dunsinane.
  22. 22SCENE III. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
  23. 23SCENE IV. Country near Dunsinane: a Wood in view.
  24. 24SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
  25. 25SCENE VI. The same. A Plain before the Castle.
  26. 26SCENE VII. The same. Another part of the Plain.
  27. 27SCENE VIII. The same. Another part of the field.

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