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3,528 | 1533_act_1,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Duncan, the Scottish lords, and their attendants arrive outside Macbeth's castle. Duncan praises the castle's pleasant environment, and he thanks Lady Macbeth, who has emerged to greet him, for her hospitality. She replies that it is her duty to be hospitable since she and her husband owe so much to their king. Duncan ... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. Before the Castle.",
"[Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth attending.]",
"[Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross,\nAngus, and Attendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nThis castle hath a pleasant seat: the air\nNimbly and sweetly recommends itself\nUnto our gentle senses.",
"BAN... |
3,529 | 1533_act_1,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Inside the castle, as oboes play and servants set a tab... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. A Lobby in the Castle.",
"[Hautboys and torches. Enter, and pass over, a Sewer and divers\nServants with dishes and service. Then enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well\nIt were done quickly. If the assassination\nCould trammel up the consequence,... |
3,530 | 1533_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Banquo and his son Fleance walk in the torch-lit hall of Macbeth's castle. Fleance says that it is after midnight, and his father responds that although he is tired, he wishes to stay awake because his sleep has lately inspired "cursed thoughts". Macbeth enters, and Banquo is surprised to see him still up. Banquo says ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Inverness. Court within the Castle.",
"[Enter Banquo, preceeded by Fleance with a torch.]",
"BANQUO.\nHow goes the night, boy?",
"FLEANCE.\nThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.",
"BANQUO.\nAnd she goes down at twelve.",
"FLEANCE.\nI take't, 'tis later, sir.",
"BANQUO.\nHo... |
3,531 | 1533_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand. No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. As Macbeth leaves the hall, Lady Macbeth enters, remarking on her boldness. She imagines that Macbeth is killing the king even as she speaks. Hearing Macbeth cry o... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Without the Castle.",
"[Enter Ross and an old Man.]",
"OLD MAN.\nThreescore and ten I can remember well:\nWithin the volume of which time I have seen\nHours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night\nHath trifled former knowings.",
"ROSS.\nAh, good father,\nThou seest, the hea... |
3,532 | 1533_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the royal palace at Forres, Banquo paces and thinks about the coronation of Macbeth and the prophecies of the weird sisters. The witches foretold that Macbeth would be king and that Banquo's line would eventually sit on the throne. If the first prophecy came true, Banquo thinks, feeling the stirring of ambition, why... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Banquo.]",
"BANQUO.\nThou hast it now,--king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,\nAs the weird women promis'd; and, I fear,\nThou play'dst most foully for't; yet it was said\nIt should not stand in thy posterity;\nBut that myself should be the root and father\nO... |
3,533 | 1533_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elsewhere in the castle, Lady Macbeth expresses despair and sends a servant to fetch her husband. Macbeth enters and tells his wife that he too is discontented, saying that his mind is "full of scorpions". He feels that the business that they began by killing Duncan is not yet complete because there are still threats t... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Another Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\nIs Banquo gone from court?",
"SERVANT.\nAy, madam, but returns again to-night.",
"LADY MACBETH.\nSay to the king, I would attend his leisure\nFor a few words.",
"SERVANT.\nMadam, I will.",
"[Ex... |
3,534 | 1533_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is dusk, and the two murderers, now joined by a third, linger in a wooded park outside the palace. Banquo and Fleance approach on their horses and dismount. They light a torch, and the murderers set upon them. The murderers kill Banquo, who dies urging his son to flee and to avenge his death. One of the murderers ex... | [
"SCENE III.",
"The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.",
"[Enter three Murderers.]",
"FIRST MURDERER.\nBut who did bid thee join with us?",
"THIRD MURDERER.\nMacbeth.",
"SECOND MURDERER.\nHe needs not our mistrust; since he delivers\nOur offices and what we have to do\nTo the directio... |
3,535 | 1533_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Onstage stands a table heaped with a feast. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter as king and queen, followed by their court, whom they bid welcome. As Macbeth walks among the company, the first murderer appears at the doorway. Macbeth speaks to him for a moment, learning that Banquo is dead and that Fleance has escaped. The ... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"The same. A Room of state in the Palace. A banquet prepared.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and\nAttendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nYou know your own degrees: sit down. At first\nAnd last the hearty welcome.",
"LORDS.\nThanks to your majesty.",
"MACBETH.\nOurself will mingle wi... |
3,536 | 1533_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Upon the stormy heath, the witches meet with Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft. Hecate scolds them for meddling in the business of Macbeth without consulting her but declares that she will take over as supervisor of the mischief. She says that when Macbeth comes the next day, as they know he will, they must summon visi... | [
"SCENE V.",
"The heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhy, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.",
"HECATE. Have I not reason, beldams as you are,\nSaucy and overbold? How did you dare\nTo trade and traffic with Macbeth\nIn riddles and affairs of death;\nAnd I, the mis... |
3,537 | 1533_act_3,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, somewhere in Scotland, Lennox walks with another lord, discussing what has happened to the kingdom. Banquo's murder has been officially blamed on Fleance, who has fled. Nevertheless, both men suspect Macbeth, whom they call a "tyrant," in the murders of Duncan and Banquo. The lord tells Lennox that Macduff ... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lennox and another Lord.]",
"LENNOX. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,\nWhich can interpret further: only, I say,\nThing's have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan\nWas pitied of Macbeth:--marry, he was dead:--\nAnd the right valiant Ban... |
3,538 | 1533_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a dark cavern, a bubbling cauldron hisses and spits, and the three witches suddenly appear onstage. They circle the cauldron, chanting spells and adding bizarre ingredients to their stew--"eye of newt and toe of frog, / Wool of bat and tongue of dog". Hecate materializes and compliments the witches on their work. On... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nThrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.",
"SECOND WITCH.\nThrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nHarpier cries:--\"tis time, 'tis time.",
"FIRST WITCH.\nRound about the... |
3,539 | 1533_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Macduff's castle, Lady Macduff accosts Ross, demanding to know why her husband has fled. She feels betrayed. Ross insists that she trust her husband's judgment and then regretfully departs. Once he is gone, Lady Macduff tells her son that his father is dead, but the little boy perceptively argues that he is not. Sud... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Fife. A Room in Macduff's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.]",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nWhat had he done, to make him fly the land?",
"ROSS.\nYou must have patience, madam.",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nHe had none:\nHis flight was madness: when our actions do not,\nOur fears do make us traitors... |
3,540 | 1533_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside King Edward's palace, Malcolm speaks with Macduff, telling him that he does not trust him since he has left his family in Scotland and may be secretly working for Macbeth. To determine whether Macduff is trustworthy, Malcolm rambles on about his own vices. He admits that he wonders whether he is fit to be king,... | [
"SCENE III.",
"England. Before the King's Palace.",
"[Enter Malcolm and Macduff.]",
"MALCOLM.\nLet us seek out some desolate shade and there\nWeep our sad bosoms empty.",
"MACDUFF.\nLet us rather\nHold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men,\nBestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn\nNew widows h... |
3,541 | 1533_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Out, damned spot; out, I say. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking. Suddenly, Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand. Bemoaning the murders ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.]",
"DOCTOR.\nI have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no\ntruth in your report. When was it she last walked?",
"GENTLEWOMAN.\nSince his majesty went into the field, I have seen her\nrise ... |
3,542 | 1533_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the castle, a group of Scottish lords discusses the military situation: the English army approaches, led by Malcolm, and the Scottish army will meet them near Birnam Wood, apparently to join forces with them. The "tyrant," as Lennox and the other lords call Macbeth, has fortified Dunsinane Castle and is making ... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The Country near Dunsinane.",
"[Enter. with drum and colours, Menteith, Caithness, Angus,\nLennox, and Soldiers.]",
"MENTEITH.\nThe English power is near, led on by Malcolm,\nHis uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.\nRevenges burn in them; for their dear causes\nWould to the bleeding and the grim... |
3,543 | 1533_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macbeth strides into the hall of Dunsinane with the doctor and his attendants, boasting proudly that he has nothing to fear from the English army or from Malcolm, since "none of woman born" can harm him and since he will rule securely "ill Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane". He calls his servant Seyton, who confirms that... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nBring me no more reports; let them fly all:\nTill Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane\nI cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?\nWas he not born of woman? The spirits that know\nAll mortal consequence... |
3,544 | 1533_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the country near Birnam Wood, Malcolm talks with the English lord Siward and his officers about Macbeth's plan to defend the fortified castle. They decide that each soldier should cut down a bough of the forest and carry it in front of him as they march to the castle, thereby disguising their numbers | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward and his Son,\nMacduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers,\nmarching.]",
"MALCOLM.\nCousins, I hope the days are near at hand\nThat chambers will be safe.",
"MENTEITH.\nWe doubt it ... |
3,545 | 1533_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Within the castle, Macbeth blusteringly orders that banners be hung and boasts that his castle will repel the enemy. A woman's c... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Dunsinane. Within the castle.",
"[Enter with drum and colours, Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers.]",
"MACBETH.\nHang out our banners on the outward walls;\nThe cry is still, \"They come:\" our castle's strength\nWill laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie\nTill famine and the ague eat them up:\nWe... |
3,546 | 1533_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the castle, the battle commences. Malcolm orders the English soldiers to throw down their boughs and draw their swords | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. A Plain before the Castle.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff, &c.,\nand their Army, with boughs.]",
"MALCOLM.\nNow near enough; your leafy screens throw down,\nAnd show like those you are.--You, worthy uncle,\nShall with my cousin, your right-noble son,\nLe... |
3,547 | 1533_act_5,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the battlefield, Macbeth strikes those around him vigorously, insolent because no man born of woman can harm him. He slays Lord Siward's son and disappears in the fray | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. Another part of the Plain.",
"[Alarums. Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nThey have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,\nBut, bear-like I must fight the course.--What's he\nThat was not born of woman? Such a one\nAm I to fear, or none.",
"[Enter young Siward.]",
"YOUNG SIWARD.\nWhat is t... |
3,548 | 1533_act_5,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macduff emerges and searches the chaos frantically for Macbeth, whom he longs to cut down personally. He dives again into the battle | [
"SCENE VIII.",
"The same. Another part of the field.",
"[Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nWhy should I play the Roman fool, and die\nOn mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes\nDo better upon them.",
"[Enter Macduff.]",
"MACDUFF.\nTurn, hell-hound, turn!",
"MACBETH.\nOf all men else I have avoided th... |
3,523 | 1533_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This very short scene immediately sets the dark, evil, somber mood of the entire play. Three witches have gathered in an open field near a battle site in Scotland during a dark thunderstorm. The three of them agree to meet again "upon the heath" to greet Macbeth, the main character of the play. At the end of the short ... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.",
"An open Place. Thunder and Lightning.",
"[Enter three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhen shall we three meet again?\nIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nWhen the hurlyburly's done,\nWhen the battle's lost and won.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nThat will be ere the set of sun.",
"FIR... |
3,524 | 1533_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This short scene is set in King Duncan's camp and further introduces the main character Macbeth. An unnamed sergeant, bleeding from battle wounds, comes into camp and reports on the progress of the fighting, mentioned earlier by the witches in Scene 1. The brave Macbeth has won the battle and killed the rebel Macdonwal... | [
"SCENE II.",
"A Camp near Forres.",
"[Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox,\nwith Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.]",
"DUNCAN.\nWhat bloody man is that? He can report,\nAs seemeth by his plight, of the revolt\nThe newest state.",
"MALCOLM.\nThis is the sergeant\nWho, like a go... |
3,525 | 1533_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene is the culmination of the witches' prediction in Scene 1, where they promised to meet Macbeth "ere the set of sun" and "when the battle's lost and won". It also furthers the theme that runs throughout the play -- that everything is not always as it seems - that appearances lie. The three horrid creatures fro... | [
"SCENE III.",
"A heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhere hast thou been, sister?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nKilling swine.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nSister, where thou?",
"FIRST WITCH.\nA sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,\nAnd mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd:--\"Give me,\" quoth I:... |
3,526 | 1533_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene takes place at King Duncan's palace at Forres. The king has arrived with his oldest son Malcolm, his youngest son Donaldbain, the nobleman Lennox, and other attendants. Duncan asks if Cawdor's execution has taken place. Malcolm replies that he has been told that Cawdor confessed his treasons, begged forgiven... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, and\nAttendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nIs execution done on Cawdor? Are not\nThose in commission yet return'd?",
"MALCOLM.\nMy liege,\nThey are not yet come back. But I have spoke\nWith one that saw him die: who did r... |
3,527 | 1533_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene, set in Macbeth's castle Inverness, opens with Lady Macbeth reading a letter from her absent husband. In the letter, Macbeth tells about his encounter with the three witches whom he believes have "more than mortal knowledge." He tells her about their prediction that he would become the Thane of Cawdor and t... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Inverness. A Room in Macbeth's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\n\"They met me in the day of success; and I have\nlearned by the perfectest report they have more in them than\nmortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them\nfurther, they made themsel... |
3,528 | 1533_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This short scene opens outside of Inverness Castle where King Duncan has arrived with his sons, Banquo, and other noblemen and attendants. The king admires the castle, and Banquo agrees that it is truly "heavenly". As they discuss the merits of the place, Lady Macbeth comes out to greet them, and pleasantries are trade... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. Before the Castle.",
"[Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth attending.]",
"[Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross,\nAngus, and Attendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nThis castle hath a pleasant seat: the air\nNimbly and sweetly recommends itself\nUnto our gentle senses.",
"BAN... |
3,529 | 1533_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens with the solitary Macbeth wrestling with his thoughts of murdering the king, and he seems to be losing to his conscience. He is bothered that Duncan is his kinsman and that the execution would take place at Inverness when he should be serving as the king's kind host. He also reckons with Duncan's virtue... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. A Lobby in the Castle.",
"[Hautboys and torches. Enter, and pass over, a Sewer and divers\nServants with dishes and service. Then enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well\nIt were done quickly. If the assassination\nCould trammel up the consequence,... |
3,530 | 1533_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens at Inverness around midnight with Banquo and his son Fleance having a last conversation before retiring to bed. Banquo comments on the darkness, saying that there are no stars out on this dreary night. He then tells his son that he is also dreary, for he has been afraid to sleep. He does not want to be... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Inverness. Court within the Castle.",
"[Enter Banquo, preceeded by Fleance with a torch.]",
"BANQUO.\nHow goes the night, boy?",
"FLEANCE.\nThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.",
"BANQUO.\nAnd she goes down at twelve.",
"FLEANCE.\nI take't, 'tis later, sir.",
"BANQUO.\nHo... |
3,531 | 1533_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Macbeth enters and says aloud that the wine which "made them drunk hath made me bold. " She has arranged everything for her husband. The servants have passed out from drinking too much, Duncan is sound asleep and unguarded, and she has left the daggers out for Macbeth to use. She says that if the king had not rese... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Without the Castle.",
"[Enter Ross and an old Man.]",
"OLD MAN.\nThreescore and ten I can remember well:\nWithin the volume of which time I have seen\nHours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night\nHath trifled former knowings.",
"ROSS.\nAh, good father,\nThou seest, the hea... |
3,534 | 1533_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The knocking that began in Scene 2 intensifies at the beginning of this scene. Finally one of the drunken porters awakens and comes to the door of the castle. He imagines he is opening hell's gate, and a number of sinners are outside waiting to come in, including a greedy farmer who hanged himself, an equivocator who "... | [
"SCENE III.",
"The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.",
"[Enter three Murderers.]",
"FIRST MURDERER.\nBut who did bid thee join with us?",
"THIRD MURDERER.\nMacbeth.",
"SECOND MURDERER.\nHe needs not our mistrust; since he delivers\nOur offices and what we have to do\nTo the directio... |
3,535 | 1533_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens the next morning outside Macbeths's castle with Ross and an old man conversing about the tragedy that occurred in the last scene. The old man states that in his seventy years he has never known such dreadful times. Ross agrees and adds that heaven is showing its displeasure with mankind, for even thoug... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"The same. A Room of state in the Palace. A banquet prepared.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and\nAttendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nYou know your own degrees: sit down. At first\nAnd last the hearty welcome.",
"LORDS.\nThanks to your majesty.",
"MACBETH.\nOurself will mingle wi... |
3,532 | 1533_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens at the palace at Forres with Banquo alone but speaking aloud to an absent Macbeth. He begins by saying, "Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou play'dst most foully for't." Then Banquo wonders if the witches' prediction for him will also come true, tha... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Banquo.]",
"BANQUO.\nThou hast it now,--king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,\nAs the weird women promis'd; and, I fear,\nThou play'dst most foully for't; yet it was said\nIt should not stand in thy posterity;\nBut that myself should be the root and father\nO... |
3,533 | 1533_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens with Lady Macbeth sending a servant to bring her husband to her. She is obviously lonely and curious to know what is going on. While she is waiting on the king's arrival, she reveals her concern for the brooding Macbeth and his fears. In a soliloquy, she states, "Tis safer to be that which we destroy t... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Another Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\nIs Banquo gone from court?",
"SERVANT.\nAy, madam, but returns again to-night.",
"LADY MACBETH.\nSay to the king, I would attend his leisure\nFor a few words.",
"SERVANT.\nMadam, I will.",
"[Ex... |
3,540 | 1533_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the palace the original two murderers are joined by a third one sent by Macbeth. As the scene opens, the three of them are waiting for Banquo and Fleance to return from their ride in the countryside in order to carry out the murders plotted by the king. Banquo and Fleance enter on foot and converse about the we... | [
"SCENE III.",
"England. Before the King's Palace.",
"[Enter Malcolm and Macduff.]",
"MALCOLM.\nLet us seek out some desolate shade and there\nWeep our sad bosoms empty.",
"MACDUFF.\nLet us rather\nHold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men,\nBestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn\nNew widows h... |
3,544 | 1533_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This very important scene, filled with flashback, symbolism, imagery, and irony, takes place in the banquet hall of the palace, and opens with King Macbeth entering with his queen, nobles, lords, and attendants. In the beginning, all seems a picture of perfect order. The table is prepared, and Macbeth tells everyone to... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward and his Son,\nMacduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers,\nmarching.]",
"MALCOLM.\nCousins, I hope the days are near at hand\nThat chambers will be safe.",
"MENTEITH.\nWe doubt it ... |
3,536 | 1533_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene takes place once again on a heath with thunder in the background. The three witches of earlier scenes enter and meet their queen, Hecate who appears to be angry. She explains, in rhyming couplets, that her wrath is due to the witches' failure to consult with her: ................. How did you dare To trade ... | [
"SCENE V.",
"The heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhy, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.",
"HECATE. Have I not reason, beldams as you are,\nSaucy and overbold? How did you dare\nTo trade and traffic with Macbeth\nIn riddles and affairs of death;\nAnd I, the mis... |
3,537 | 1533_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This short scene takes place at the palace at Forres, but its purpose is to give the audience information on the state of affairs outside the palace walls. The noble Lennox is conversing with an unnamed lord and states that as of late "things have been strangely borne. " It is still generally believed that Malcolm and... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lennox and another Lord.]",
"LENNOX. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,\nWhich can interpret further: only, I say,\nThing's have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan\nWas pitied of Macbeth:--marry, he was dead:--\nAnd the right valiant Ban... |
3,538 | 1533_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The fourth and final witch scene in the play is set in a cavern with a boiling cauldron in the middle. As in the other witch scenes, the weather is dark and ominous, with thunder in the background. The three witches are concocting their " hell-broth" and casting spells, obviously while waiting for Macbeth to arrive. As... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nThrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.",
"SECOND WITCH.\nThrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nHarpier cries:--\"tis time, 'tis time.",
"FIRST WITCH.\nRound about the... |
3,539 | 1533_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene takes place at Macduff's castle in Fife. Lady Macduff, with her young son at her side, is conversing with noble Ross about her husband's having fled the country. She is understandably upset, feels deserted, fears for his life, and thinks "his flight was madness. " She openly calls him a traitor who acted out... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Fife. A Room in Macduff's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.]",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nWhat had he done, to make him fly the land?",
"ROSS.\nYou must have patience, madam.",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nHe had none:\nHis flight was madness: when our actions do not,\nOur fears do make us traitors... |
3,543 | 1533_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene opens in front of the king's castle in England with Malcolm and Macduff discussing the state of affairs brought about by Macbeth in Scotland. It is not a pretty picture, for each day "new sorrows strike heaven on the face." Malcolm wants to find a desolate place and weep for his homeland. Macduff wants to ta... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nBring me no more reports; let them fly all:\nTill Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane\nI cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?\nWas he not born of woman? The spirits that know\nAll mortal consequence... |
3,541 | 1533_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene takes place in the castle at Dunsinane with an unnamed lady-in-waiting conversing with a physician about Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking. The doctor has observed the queen for two days and not seen any incidents like the gentlewoman has described, and he is beginning to doubt her truthfulness. He questions her a... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.]",
"DOCTOR.\nI have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no\ntruth in your report. When was it she last walked?",
"GENTLEWOMAN.\nSince his majesty went into the field, I have seen her\nrise ... |
3,542 | 1533_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This brief scene takes place in the open country near Dunsinane and is a picture of impending battle. Drums are beating, flags are flying, and the Scottish soldiers have gathered to prepare for their attack against Macbeth. The English army, led by Malcolm, Macduff, and Siward is nearby. Angus, one of the Scottish lord... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The Country near Dunsinane.",
"[Enter. with drum and colours, Menteith, Caithness, Angus,\nLennox, and Soldiers.]",
"MENTEITH.\nThe English power is near, led on by Malcolm,\nHis uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.\nRevenges burn in them; for their dear causes\nWould to the bleeding and the grim... |
3,545 | 1533_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene again take place in the court of the palace at Dunsinane with Macbeth talking to Seton and his soldiers. He is still lying to himself as the tells the others, "Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn. " His vain words are interrupted by the wailing of women. Macbeth admits he is unaffected by the s... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Dunsinane. Within the castle.",
"[Enter with drum and colours, Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers.]",
"MACBETH.\nHang out our banners on the outward walls;\nThe cry is still, \"They come:\" our castle's strength\nWill laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie\nTill famine and the ague eat them up:\nWe... |
3,546 | 1533_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This very brief scene takes place just beyond the castle gate of Dunsinane. Malcolm, Siward, and Macduff converse as they lead their army forward. Malcolm instructs his troops to throw down the branches from Birnam Wood, for they no longer need camouflage. Then Malcolm, obviously in control and command, orders Siward a... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. A Plain before the Castle.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff, &c.,\nand their Army, with boughs.]",
"MALCOLM.\nNow near enough; your leafy screens throw down,\nAnd show like those you are.--You, worthy uncle,\nShall with my cousin, your right-noble son,\nLe... |
3,547 | 1533_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This fast-paced scene is filled with military action and the sounds of war. Macbeth enters the battlefield and wonders aloud what kind of man would not be born of woman. Young Siward enters and asks his name. When the king replies, the young soldier says, "The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to m... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. Another part of the Plain.",
"[Alarums. Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nThey have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,\nBut, bear-like I must fight the course.--What's he\nThat was not born of woman? Such a one\nAm I to fear, or none.",
"[Enter young Siward.]",
"YOUNG SIWARD.\nWhat is t... |
3,523 | 1533_act_1_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurly burly's done When the battle's lost, and won ''''''' ''. Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air." The play opens with three witches predicting the future in a windswept and barren land during a violent thunder... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.",
"An open Place. Thunder and Lightning.",
"[Enter three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhen shall we three meet again?\nIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nWhen the hurlyburly's done,\nWhen the battle's lost and won.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nThat will be ere the set of sun.",
"FIR... |
3,524 | 1533_act_1_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scotland's King Duncan is involved in a war against his own rebellious subjects, and also King Sweno of Norway. This scene gives details of how the battles are progressing, and the King receives three messages during this scene. Firstly, the brave Macbeth has killed the villainous rebel Macdonald, the second report giv... | [
"SCENE II.",
"A Camp near Forres.",
"[Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox,\nwith Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.]",
"DUNCAN.\nWhat bloody man is that? He can report,\nAs seemeth by his plight, of the revolt\nThe newest state.",
"MALCOLM.\nThis is the sergeant\nWho, like a go... |
3,525 | 1533_act_1_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With a thunderclap, the three sisters appear. They have already demonstrated their power by casting a terrible spell upon a sailor whose wife had offended one of them. Macbeth, Banquo and two soldiers are riding from the battlefield when they encounter the sister. The witches in turn greet Macbeth saying, All hail Macb... | [
"SCENE III.",
"A heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhere hast thou been, sister?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nKilling swine.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nSister, where thou?",
"FIRST WITCH.\nA sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,\nAnd mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd:--\"Give me,\" quoth I:... |
3,526 | 1533_act_1_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the palace, King Duncan gives official thanks to Macbeth and Banquo and then announces that his successor as King will be his son, Malcolm, who is named hereafter as the Prince of Cumberland. This comes as a surprise to Macbeth. | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, and\nAttendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nIs execution done on Cawdor? Are not\nThose in commission yet return'd?",
"MALCOLM.\nMy liege,\nThey are not yet come back. But I have spoke\nWith one that saw him die: who did r... |
3,527 | 1533_act_1_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene is set at Macbeth's castle in Inverness where Lady Macbeth reads a letter received from her husband concerning his meeting with the witches. She is instantly aware of the importance of the predictions made by the sisters, and as the King will be paying a royal visit soon, this will give them the opportunity ... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Inverness. A Room in Macbeth's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\n\"They met me in the day of success; and I have\nlearned by the perfectest report they have more in them than\nmortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them\nfurther, they made themsel... |
3,528 | 1533_act_1_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the King and his entourage arrive at Inverness, Lady Macbeth, who is now transformed into the perfect hostess, greets them. | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. Before the Castle.",
"[Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth attending.]",
"[Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross,\nAngus, and Attendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nThis castle hath a pleasant seat: the air\nNimbly and sweetly recommends itself\nUnto our gentle senses.",
"BAN... |
3,530 | 1533_act_2_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his way to the King's chamber, Macbeth meets Banquo and his son Fleance. Macbeth asks why he is up so late and Banquo responds that he has been dreaming about the witches. They arrange to meet to discuss the matter. Macbeth is alone again and suddenly he sees an apparition. "Is this a dagger, which I see before me? ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Inverness. Court within the Castle.",
"[Enter Banquo, preceeded by Fleance with a torch.]",
"BANQUO.\nHow goes the night, boy?",
"FLEANCE.\nThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.",
"BANQUO.\nAnd she goes down at twelve.",
"FLEANCE.\nI take't, 'tis later, sir.",
"BANQUO.\nHo... |
3,531 | 1533_act_2_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Macbeth had successfully completed her part of the plot by drugging Duncan's guards. She meets with her husband as he emerges from the King's room. He is in turmoil regarding the deed he has committed and again his wife scolds him for his lack of firmness. Lady Macbeth is alarmed to see that Macbeth has brought th... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Without the Castle.",
"[Enter Ross and an old Man.]",
"OLD MAN.\nThreescore and ten I can remember well:\nWithin the volume of which time I have seen\nHours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night\nHath trifled former knowings.",
"ROSS.\nAh, good father,\nThou seest, the hea... |
3,532 | 1533_act_3_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Banquo is mindful of the witches' predictions and suspects Macbeth of foul play. What gives him confidence is that fact that his own children will be Kings. Macbeth persuades Banquo to come to his new palace at Forres for a banquet. Macbeth realizes that the witches' third prediction concerning Banquo threatens his hol... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Banquo.]",
"BANQUO.\nThou hast it now,--king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,\nAs the weird women promis'd; and, I fear,\nThou play'dst most foully for't; yet it was said\nIt should not stand in thy posterity;\nBut that myself should be the root and father\nO... |
3,533 | 1533_act_3_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the hired murderers make their way towards Banquo, the audience sees a short scene involving the Macbeth's. Lady Macbeth attempts to take the burden of guilt away from her husband. The couple is facing more difficulties than they expected now that they are King and Queen, and she is amazed to find out that Macbeth h... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Another Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\nIs Banquo gone from court?",
"SERVANT.\nAy, madam, but returns again to-night.",
"LADY MACBETH.\nSay to the king, I would attend his leisure\nFor a few words.",
"SERVANT.\nMadam, I will.",
"[Ex... |
3,534 | 1533_act_3_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Banquo and Fleance travel to the banquet, the hired murderers intercept them. Banquo is killed and during the struggle, the murderers' lantern is extinguished, giving Fleance the opportunity to escape. | [
"SCENE III.",
"The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.",
"[Enter three Murderers.]",
"FIRST MURDERER.\nBut who did bid thee join with us?",
"THIRD MURDERER.\nMacbeth.",
"SECOND MURDERER.\nHe needs not our mistrust; since he delivers\nOur offices and what we have to do\nTo the directio... |
3,535 | 1533_act_3_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the feast in Forres Castle, Macbeth and his wife greet the Thanes of Scotland. Macbeth has just learned from one of the murderers that Banquo was killed, but Fleance escaped. Macbeth toasts the Thanes and also his absent friend. He then sees Banquo's ghost, but nobody else there can see this apparition. As quickly a... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"The same. A Room of state in the Palace. A banquet prepared.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and\nAttendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nYou know your own degrees: sit down. At first\nAnd last the hearty welcome.",
"LORDS.\nThanks to your majesty.",
"MACBETH.\nOurself will mingle wi... |
3,536 | 1533_act_3_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The witches are merely representatives of the classic goddess Hecate. She visits the weird sisters complaining that she has not received credit for her part in Macbeth's downfall. | [
"SCENE V.",
"The heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhy, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.",
"HECATE. Have I not reason, beldams as you are,\nSaucy and overbold? How did you dare\nTo trade and traffic with Macbeth\nIn riddles and affairs of death;\nAnd I, the mis... |
3,537 | 1533_act_3_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene involves Lennox who is also suspicious of Macbeth. The other Lords present advise Lennox that Macduff has fled from Scotland and is with Malcolm in England. They have requested aid from King Edward the Confessor and they hope that with God's help they will be able to overthrow the tyrannical Macbeth, and tha... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lennox and another Lord.]",
"LENNOX. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,\nWhich can interpret further: only, I say,\nThing's have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan\nWas pitied of Macbeth:--marry, he was dead:--\nAnd the right valiant Ban... |
3,538 | 1533_act_4_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Shakespeare takes us back to the blasted heath where the three witches surround the cauldron into which they throw various ingredients. Fillet of fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nThrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.",
"SECOND WITCH.\nThrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nHarpier cries:--\"tis time, 'tis time.",
"FIRST WITCH.\nRound about the... |
3,549 | 1533_act_4_scene_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Macduff's castle in Fife, Lady Macduff and her son remain, despite advice from the Thane of Ross to escape. The young son shows courage when he learns of his father's defection. Macbeth's henchmen arrive at the castle and they brutally kill Lady Macduff and then her child. In Scene.iii, which takes place in England,... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Fife. A Room in Macduff's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.]",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nWhat had he done, to make him fly the land?",
"ROSS.\nYou must have patience, madam.",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nHe had none:\nHis flight was madness: when our actions do not,\nOur fears do make us traitors... |
3,541 | 1533_act_5_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Macbeth suffers from a psychological disorder and she sleepwalks and talks in fits and starts, remembering events from the murders of Duncan and also references to Banquo and Lady Macduff. Her doctor and maid overhear her incriminating words. | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.]",
"DOCTOR.\nI have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no\ntruth in your report. When was it she last walked?",
"GENTLEWOMAN.\nSince his majesty went into the field, I have seen her\nrise ... |
3,542 | 1533_act_5_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Birnam Wood, close to Macbeth's Castle at Dunsinane, Malcolm and some of the Scottish Lords, plus and English army encamp. They prepare for battle. The audience now suspects that the play is coming to a climax by the reference to Birnam Wood, which was part of the third apparition seen by Macbeth. One of the Scottis... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The Country near Dunsinane.",
"[Enter. with drum and colours, Menteith, Caithness, Angus,\nLennox, and Soldiers.]",
"MENTEITH.\nThe English power is near, led on by Malcolm,\nHis uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.\nRevenges burn in them; for their dear causes\nWould to the bleeding and the grim... |
3,543 | 1533_act_5_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Dunsinane Castle, Macbeth has renewed confidence arising from the prophecies receives from the apparitions. After all, they have promised him invincibility in battle. A messenger arrives to announce the approach of a large army, and for a moment Macbeth loses his confidence, but then issues orders for his armor... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nBring me no more reports; let them fly all:\nTill Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane\nI cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?\nWas he not born of woman? The spirits that know\nAll mortal consequence... |
3,544 | 1533_act_5_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at Birnam Wood Malcolm orders his troops to cut branches and carry them in front so as to camouflage the army, so that Macbeth will not be able to see how many soldiers they have. | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward and his Son,\nMacduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers,\nmarching.]",
"MALCOLM.\nCousins, I hope the days are near at hand\nThat chambers will be safe.",
"MENTEITH.\nWe doubt it ... |
3,545 | 1533_act_5_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macbeth is now dressed in his armor, preparing to meet the advancing army. A shriek is heard offstage, which marks the death of the Queen. It is not clear whether she has committed suicide or not. This puts Macbeth into a contemplative state for perhaps he views the death of his wife as also the death of ambition and p... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Dunsinane. Within the castle.",
"[Enter with drum and colours, Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers.]",
"MACBETH.\nHang out our banners on the outward walls;\nThe cry is still, \"They come:\" our castle's strength\nWill laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie\nTill famine and the ague eat them up:\nWe... |
3,546 | 1533_act_5_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Malcolm's army under camouflage reaches Dunsinane. | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. A Plain before the Castle.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff, &c.,\nand their Army, with boughs.]",
"MALCOLM.\nNow near enough; your leafy screens throw down,\nAnd show like those you are.--You, worthy uncle,\nShall with my cousin, your right-noble son,\nLe... |
3,547 | 1533_act_5_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Siward's son who shows great valor challenges Macbeth, but Macbeth kills him. Macbeth is on the battlefield, but his forces have surrendered Dunsinane Castle, but there is still action left in the play. Macbeth and Macduff come face-to-face. They fight and Macbeth is killed, the tyrannical King of Scotland is no more. ... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. Another part of the Plain.",
"[Alarums. Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nThey have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,\nBut, bear-like I must fight the course.--What's he\nThat was not born of woman? Such a one\nAm I to fear, or none.",
"[Enter young Siward.]",
"YOUNG SIWARD.\nWhat is t... |
3,523 | 1533_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The three infamous witches of Macbeth make their first appearance as they make convoluted conversation with each other amidst terrifying thunder and lightning. The "weird" sisters agree to reconvene once "the battle's lost and won" upon "the heath. The details of this battle are unknown until the later scenes in this a... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.",
"An open Place. Thunder and Lightning.",
"[Enter three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhen shall we three meet again?\nIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nWhen the hurlyburly's done,\nWhen the battle's lost and won.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nThat will be ere the set of sun.",
"FIR... |
3,524 | 1533_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Duncan, his sons Malcolm and Donalbain and the nobleman Lennox meet with a bleeding captain who recounts the details of the aforementioned battle. Malcolm bids the captain, who valiantly fought in the battle, to tell the king the present state of affairs. He says that the rebel Macdonwald swarmed the battlefield w... | [
"SCENE II.",
"A Camp near Forres.",
"[Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox,\nwith Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.]",
"DUNCAN.\nWhat bloody man is that? He can report,\nAs seemeth by his plight, of the revolt\nThe newest state.",
"MALCOLM.\nThis is the sergeant\nWho, like a go... |
3,525 | 1533_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the witches' prophecy has been realized, they reconvene at the predetermined heath. The first witch explains to the others why she was late in coming. Angered at the impudence of a sailor's wife in not giving her chestnuts, the first witch vows to seek revenge on the sailor, making him a sleepless, cursed man.... | [
"SCENE III.",
"A heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhere hast thou been, sister?",
"SECOND WITCH.\nKilling swine.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nSister, where thou?",
"FIRST WITCH.\nA sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,\nAnd mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd:--\"Give me,\" quoth I:... |
3,526 | 1533_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the palace, King Duncan asks Malcolm if the Thane of Cawdor's execution has taken place. Malcolm tells him that the nobleman repented his actions. In response, Duncan says that there is no way of determining a person's thoughts, whether good or evil, in the physiognomy of the face. The king says that the Thane of Ca... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, and\nAttendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nIs execution done on Cawdor? Are not\nThose in commission yet return'd?",
"MALCOLM.\nMy liege,\nThey are not yet come back. But I have spoke\nWith one that saw him die: who did r... |
3,527 | 1533_act_1,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Macbeth reads aloud Macbeth's letter that details his encounter with the weird sisters. Full of determination and love for her husband, she resolves to convince Macbeth to carry through with the planned murders. She says that Macbeth is too kind and gentle to commit such an act, whereas she is more morally courage... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Inverness. A Room in Macbeth's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter.]",
"LADY MACBETH.\n\"They met me in the day of success; and I have\nlearned by the perfectest report they have more in them than\nmortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them\nfurther, they made themsel... |
3,528 | 1533_act_1,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Duncan and Banquo enter Inverness and admire its beauty and advantageous situation. Lady Macbeth and King Duncan cordially greet each other, and Duncan informs her of his plan to stay overnight. With all of the hospitality of a good host, Lady Macbeth encourages everyone to make themselves at home | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. Before the Castle.",
"[Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth attending.]",
"[Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross,\nAngus, and Attendants.]",
"DUNCAN.\nThis castle hath a pleasant seat: the air\nNimbly and sweetly recommends itself\nUnto our gentle senses.",
"BAN... |
3,529 | 1533_act_1,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macbeth is confused about his course of action. He wishes that Duncan's murder were an end in itself, tying up all loose ends with the result of sovereignty. Macbeth also wonders whether the crime is worth all of his effort; for a few moments of mortal pleasure, he may be condemned to eternal damnation in Hell. In addi... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. A Lobby in the Castle.",
"[Hautboys and torches. Enter, and pass over, a Sewer and divers\nServants with dishes and service. Then enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well\nIt were done quickly. If the assassination\nCould trammel up the consequence,... |
3,530 | 1533_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Banquo and his son Fleance walk toward their rooms after all of the merrymaking is over. Banquo tells Fleance that he is unable to sleep because of his troubling thoughts. He is wondering if Macbeth will take fate into his own hands to try and realize the witches' prophecies. The pair meets up with Macbeth, who is also... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Inverness. Court within the Castle.",
"[Enter Banquo, preceeded by Fleance with a torch.]",
"BANQUO.\nHow goes the night, boy?",
"FLEANCE.\nThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.",
"BANQUO.\nAnd she goes down at twelve.",
"FLEANCE.\nI take't, 'tis later, sir.",
"BANQUO.\nHo... |
3,535 | 1533_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The banquet has begun and Macbeth warmly invites his guests to sit down and partake of the food. One of the murderers enters the room and tells Macbeth that Banquo is dead but Fleance still lives. Macbeth becomes angry and afraid. He orders the murderer to come back tomorrow to discuss the capture and murder of Fleance... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"The same. A Room of state in the Palace. A banquet prepared.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and\nAttendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nYou know your own degrees: sit down. At first\nAnd last the hearty welcome.",
"LORDS.\nThanks to your majesty.",
"MACBETH.\nOurself will mingle wi... |
3,536 | 1533_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The witches meet with their mistress, the powerful sorceress Hecate. Hecate is a figure from Greek mythology, the queen of the night and the protector of witches and enchanters. She is angry that the witches have not asked her for any help in their dealings with Macbeth. Hecate is also furious that the weird sisters ha... | [
"SCENE V.",
"The heath.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nWhy, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.",
"HECATE. Have I not reason, beldams as you are,\nSaucy and overbold? How did you dare\nTo trade and traffic with Macbeth\nIn riddles and affairs of death;\nAnd I, the mis... |
3,537 | 1533_act_3,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lennox and another lord discuss the macabre atmosphere in the palace. Lennox notes that everyone who has been in contact with Macbeth is now dead or has disappeared-King Duncan, Banquo, Macduff, Fleance, Donalbain and Malcolm. He is glad that Malcolm and Donalbain are not near Macbeth and thus not vulnerable to his mur... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"Forres. A Room in the Palace.",
"[Enter Lennox and another Lord.]",
"LENNOX. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,\nWhich can interpret further: only, I say,\nThing's have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan\nWas pitied of Macbeth:--marry, he was dead:--\nAnd the right valiant Ban... |
3,538 | 1533_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the witches' haunt, the weird sisters and Hecate are busy preparing the potion that will bring about Macbeth's ruin. Macbeth enters and asks to speak to the witches' masters about the future. An apparition takes the form of a helmeted head and tells Macbeth to beware the Thane of Fife. A second specter appears in th... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.",
"[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]",
"FIRST WITCH.\nThrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.",
"SECOND WITCH.\nThrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.",
"THIRD WITCH.\nHarpier cries:--\"tis time, 'tis time.",
"FIRST WITCH.\nRound about the... |
3,539 | 1533_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lady Macduff asks Ross why her husband has suddenly fled to England. She is not aware of the troubles between Macbeth and Macduff and does not realize that she is in danger. Lady Macduff decides that her husband left his family because he did not love them anymore. Ross tries to comfort her and warns her that Scotland ... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Fife. A Room in Macduff's Castle.",
"[Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.]",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nWhat had he done, to make him fly the land?",
"ROSS.\nYou must have patience, madam.",
"LADY MACDUFF.\nHe had none:\nHis flight was madness: when our actions do not,\nOur fears do make us traitors... |
3,540 | 1533_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macduff has found Malcolm in England and the two are conversing in front of the king's palace. The two lament the evils that Scotland has suffered under the "tyrant" Macbeth's reign. Macduff tries to convince Malcolm to overthrow Macbeth. Malcolm, however, is still wary of anyone from Scotland. Thus, he pretends to be ... | [
"SCENE III.",
"England. Before the King's Palace.",
"[Enter Malcolm and Macduff.]",
"MALCOLM.\nLet us seek out some desolate shade and there\nWeep our sad bosoms empty.",
"MACDUFF.\nLet us rather\nHold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men,\nBestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn\nNew widows h... |
3,541 | 1533_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Macbeth's castle, a gentlewoman speaks to a doctor about Lady Macbeth's strange somnambulatory behavior. While the two are talking, they suddenly observe Lady Macbeth sleepwalking. She vigorously rubs her hands, as if trying to wash away a stain of some sort. Lady Macbeth sighs, weeps and mutters about the Thane of ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.]",
"DOCTOR.\nI have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no\ntruth in your report. When was it she last walked?",
"GENTLEWOMAN.\nSince his majesty went into the field, I have seen her\nrise ... |
3,542 | 1533_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The noblemen Menteith, Caithness, Angus and Lennox rally the soldiers. Menteith reports that Malcolm, Siward, Macduff and the English army are nearby at Birnam Wood and will join them shortly. Caithness informs the group that Macbeth is busy fortifying his castle. The men march on to Birnam Wood | [
"SCENE II.",
"The Country near Dunsinane.",
"[Enter. with drum and colours, Menteith, Caithness, Angus,\nLennox, and Soldiers.]",
"MENTEITH.\nThe English power is near, led on by Malcolm,\nHis uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.\nRevenges burn in them; for their dear causes\nWould to the bleeding and the grim... |
3,543 | 1533_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In his castle, Macbeth is overconfident in his victory. He knows that he cannot be defeated until "Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane" and a man "not of woman born" kills him. Thus, he does not fear the fast-approaching Malcolm and his men. A servant tells Macbeth that there are ten thousand English soldiers directly outs... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.",
"[Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.]",
"MACBETH.\nBring me no more reports; let them fly all:\nTill Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane\nI cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?\nWas he not born of woman? The spirits that know\nAll mortal consequence... |
3,544 | 1533_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Malcolm, Siward, Macduff and the English forces have met up with Menteith, Angus, Caithness and the Scottish soldiers. Malcolm orders each man to chop down a tree in Birnam Wood and carry it until they reach Macbeth's castle. He says that this will hide their true numbers until they are ready to attack. Thus, Birnam Wo... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward and his Son,\nMacduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers,\nmarching.]",
"MALCOLM.\nCousins, I hope the days are near at hand\nThat chambers will be safe.",
"MENTEITH.\nWe doubt it ... |
3,545 | 1533_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inside the castle, Macbeth prepares to do battle with Malcolm and Macduff. He learns that Lady Macbeth has committed suicide and hardly mourns her death. He is hardened by his newfound life as a criminal and is thus devoid of all proper emotion and compassion for his wife. A messenger interrupts Macbeth's reverie and t... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Dunsinane. Within the castle.",
"[Enter with drum and colours, Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers.]",
"MACBETH.\nHang out our banners on the outward walls;\nThe cry is still, \"They come:\" our castle's strength\nWill laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie\nTill famine and the ague eat them up:\nWe... |
3,546 | 1533_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The rebel army has reached Macbeth's castle at Dunsinane. Malcolm orders Siward and his son to lead the men into the castle. Malcolm and Macduff will remain behind to finish off everyone else | [
"SCENE VI.",
"The same. A Plain before the Castle.",
"[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff, &c.,\nand their Army, with boughs.]",
"MALCOLM.\nNow near enough; your leafy screens throw down,\nAnd show like those you are.--You, worthy uncle,\nShall with my cousin, your right-noble son,\nLe... |
3,547 | 1533_act_5,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macbeth has been captured by the soldiers and tied to a stake. Siward's young son approaches Macbeth and tries to duel with him. Macbeth promptly kills him. Macduff then enters the castle, followed by Siward. Macduff wants to find and kill Macbeth so that his wife and children's ghosts will not haunt him. The two roam ... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"The same. Another part of the Plain.",
"[Alarums. Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nThey have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,\nBut, bear-like I must fight the course.--What's he\nThat was not born of woman? Such a one\nAm I to fear, or none.",
"[Enter young Siward.]",
"YOUNG SIWARD.\nWhat is t... |
3,548 | 1533_act_5,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Macduff finally meets up with Macbeth and the two duel. Macbeth tells Macduff that he does not fear anyone who was born of a woman. Macduff, however, tells Macbeth that he was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped. This means that Macduff was removed from his mother's womb via a cesarean section, and was not technica... | [
"SCENE VIII.",
"The same. Another part of the field.",
"[Enter Macbeth.]",
"MACBETH.\nWhy should I play the Roman fool, and die\nOn mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes\nDo better upon them.",
"[Enter Macduff.]",
"MACDUFF.\nTurn, hell-hound, turn!",
"MACBETH.\nOf all men else I have avoided th... |
3,550 | 1790_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene one opens with a conversation between Troilus and Pandarus. Troilus, a son of King Priam of Troy, is in love with Pandarus' niece, Cressida, and he has secured Pandarus as a matchmaker. Pandarus is a bawdy old flatterer, constantly making sexual puns; he agrees that Cressida is nearly as beautiful as Helen, thoug... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS",
"TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again. Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within? Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! PANDARUS.... |
3,551 | 1790_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene two begins with a conversation between Cressida and her servant Alexander about Ajax, a newly-arrived half-Greek and half-Trojan champion who is fighting on the Greek side. They jokingly suggest that Ajax is full of bluster and short on brains. Pandarus enters and deftly turns the subject to Troilus. Despite his ... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 2.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter CRESSIDA and her man ALEXANDER",
"CRESSIDA. Who were those went by? ALEXANDER. Queen Hecuba and Helen. CRESSIDA. And whither go they? ALEXANDER. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To see the battle. Hector, whose patience Is as a vir... |
3,552 | 1790_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act Two introduces us to Thersites, an acid-tongued coward of low rank in the Greek army who delights in insulting his superiors. He even trades the foolhardy warrior Ajax colorful insults for brutal blows. The Trojan camp seriously discusses the latest offer from Nestor: the Greeks, it seems, will call off the whole w... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp",
"Enter Ajax and THERSITES",
"AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. Agamemnon-how if he had boils full, an over, generally? AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. And those boils did run-say so. Did not the general run then? Were not that a botchy core? AJAX. Dog! THERSITES. Then there would com... |
3,553 | 1790_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a short hiatus from the romance between our title characters, we find ourselves once again in the company of the smooth-talking Pandarus. He meets with Helen and Paris, both of whom are wholly unconcerned with the brutal realities of the Trojan War and are spending their days dallying with musicians. Pandarus com... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 1.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Music sounds within. Enter PANDARUS and a SERVANT",
"PANDARUS. Friend, you-pray you, a word. Do you not follow the young\n Lord Paris? SERVANT. Ay, sir, when he goes before me. PANDARUS. You depend upon him, I mean? SERVANT. Sir, I do depend upon the lord. PANDARUS... |
3,554 | 1790_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the same night that Troilus and Cressida finally consummate their love, Diomedes arrives from the Greek camp to tell Aeneas and the others of their offer to return Antenor in exchange for Cressida. Although Aeneas is loath to part Troilus from his new love, it is agreed that the exchange must be made. Troilus and Cr... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 1.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter, at one side, AENEAS, and servant with a torch; at another,\nPARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES the Grecian, and others, with\ntorches",
"PARIS. See, ho! Who is that there? DEIPHOBUS. It is the Lord Aeneas. AENEAS. Is the Prince there in person? Had I so good occasion... |
3,555 | 1790_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thersites enters with a letter for Achilles. While Achilles reads the missive, Patroclus tries to engage Thersites in banter, only to find the misanthrope even more spiteful than usual towards him . Achilles, having finished the letter, announces that it is from Queen Hecuba, charging him to fulfill an oath he made to ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp. Before the tent of ACHILLES",
"Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS",
"ACHILLES. I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,\n Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.\n Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.\n PATROCLUS. Here comes Thersites.",
"Enter THERSITES"... |
3,556 | 1790_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We begin with a prologue. An actor dressed in armor comes out on stage and welcomes us to ancient Troy, where the Greeks and Trojans have been going at it on the Trojan battlefields for the last...get this...7 years. Since we're starting out "in the middle" of all the action, the Prologue quickly catches us up to speed... | [
"PROLOGUE\n PROLOGUE",
"In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece\n The princes orgillous, their high blood chaf'd,\n Have to the port of Athens sent their ships\n Fraught with the ministers and instruments\n Of cruel war. Sixty and nine that wore\n Their crownets r... |
3,550 | 1790_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In front of King Priam's palace in Troy, a young Trojan prince named Troilus calls his servant over to help him take off all his armor. Troilus tells a guy named Pandarus that he's way too lovesick to fight. He asks, "Why should I war without the walls of Troy, / That find such cruel battle here within." Pandarus compl... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS",
"TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again. Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within? Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! PANDARUS.... |
3,551 | 1790_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street in Troy, the luscious Cressida hangs out with her servant Alexander, who entertains our girl with some juicy gossip about some key players in the Trojan war. Apparently, on his way to the battlefield today, Hector flipped out and yelled at his wife and then slapped around the guy who helps him arm for battl... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 2.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter CRESSIDA and her man ALEXANDER",
"CRESSIDA. Who were those went by? ALEXANDER. Queen Hecuba and Helen. CRESSIDA. And whither go they? ALEXANDER. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To see the battle. Hector, whose patience Is as a vir... |
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