Thoughts about Macbeth

This folder, I hope, will eventually contain a file for each scene, numbered as they are numbered in my script 1. And each file will contain any thoughts of mine that I imagine might be useful to other people. I will try not to repeat myself – not excessively, I mean.

The files in this folder are all to be regarded as works in progress: they are liable to get revisited from time to time, for one reason or another.

• Scene 11

  The king’s sons make their escape.

• Scene 12

  The aftermath of the murder.

• Scene 13

  Macbeth is crowned king.

• Intermission

  Several years elapse.

• Scene 14

  Macbeth plans Banquo’s murder.

• Scene 15

  Macbeth and his wife talk across one another.

• Scene 16

  Banquo is murdered.

• Scene 17

  The banquet … Macbeth freaks out … recovers … freaks out again.

• Scene 18

  The witches get told off by Hecate.

• Scene 19

  The thanes are revising their ideas.

• Scene 26

  The English army and the rebel thanes’ army join forces.

• Scene 27

  Macbeth is told that his wife is dead … he discovers that he was deceived by the Third Apparition … he decides to go on the attack.

• Scene 28

  The allied armies arrive at Dunsinane.

• Scene 29

  Macbeth is roaming the battlefield.

• Scene 30

  Macduff is also roaming the battlefield, hunting for Macbeth.

• Scene 31

  Malcolm and the others reach the castle gate.

• Scene 32

  Macduff catches up with Macbeth … they fight … Macbeth discovers that he was deceived by the Second Apparition too … they continue fighting.

• Scene 33

  Malcolm and the others talk among themselves … Macduff arrives with Macbeth’s chopped-off head … Malcolm is made king by acclamation.