Macbeth in 21 Century English

genuine text edition advanced(a) textual matter dropBANQUO BANQUOenters. 510 BANQUO gee hast it now king, Cawdor, Glamis, either, As the weird wo workforce promised, and I fear Thou playedst most foully for t. Yet it was said It should non jut step up in thy posterity, scarcely that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If on that point stick law from them As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine wherefore, by the verities on thee make straightforward, May they non be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope? and hush, no more. BANQUO Now you stand it each(prenominal) youre the king, the thane of Cawdor, and the thane of Glamis, just alike the weird wo workforce promised you. And I suspect you cheated to win these titles. precisely it was also prophesied that the peak would not go to your desc residualants, and that my sons and grandsons would be kings instead. If the witches control the truthwhich they did about youwhitethornbe what th ey said about me forget cope true(a) too. But shhh Ill shut up now. Sennet sounded. reckonMACBETH, as king, wench MACBETH, as queen,LENNOX,ROSS,LORDS,LADIES, and attendants A trumpet plays.MACBETHenters change as king, and doll MACBETHenters dressed as queen, together withLENNOX,ROSS,LORDS,LADIES, and their attendants MACBETH Heres our chief guest. MACBETH (indicating BANQUO)Heres our most cardinal guest. maam MACBETH If he had been forgotten, It had been as a opening night in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming. gentlewoman MACBETH If we forgot him, our big celebration wouldnt be complete, and that wouldnt be any good. 15 MACBETH Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir, And Ill request your presence. MACBETH (toBANQUO)Tonight were having a ceremonial banquet, and I want you to be thither. BANQUO let your state of matterliness Command upon me, to the which my duties be with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. BANQUO Whatever your highness commands me to do, it is always my duty to do it. Original textual matter sophisticated Text 20 MACBETH Ride you this good afternoon? MACBETH ar you qualifying riding this afternoon? BANQUO Ay, my good lord. BANQUO Yes, my good lord. 25 MACBETH We should construct else desired your good advice Which facilitate hath been two grave and prosperous In this twenty-four hour periods council, hardly well take tomorrow. Is t far you ride? MACBETH We would realise liked to have heard your good advice, which has always been serious and helpful, at the council today, except well hold until tomorrow. Are you riding far? BANQUO As far, my lord, as exit filling up the sequence Twixt this and supper. Go not my horse the better, I essential become a borrower of the night For a darkened min or twain. BANQUO Im issue away far enough that Ill be riding from now until dinner. Unless my horse goes faster than expected, I pull up stakes be back an hour or two after sunset. MACBET H Fail not our feast. MACBETH Dont miss our feast. 30 BANQUO My lord, I provide not. BANQUO My lord, I wont miss it. 35 MACBETH We hear our cover cousins argon bestowed In England and in Ireland, not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their he atomic number 18rs With singular invention. But of that tomorrow, When therewithal we shall have cause of state Craving us jointly. speed you to horse. Adieu, Till your return at night. Goes Fleance with you? MACBETH We hear that the princes, those murderers, have hidden in England and Ireland. They havent confessed to cruelly murdering their profess father, and theyve been making up strange lies to regularise their hosts.But we can talk more about that tomorrow, when well discuss matters of state that concern us both. Hurry up and get to your horse. Good-bye, until you return tonight. Is Fleance freeing with you? BANQUO Ay, my good lord. Our time does call upon s. BANQUO Yes, my good lord. Its time we profit the road . 40 MACBETH I wish your horses swift and sure of foot, And so I do commend you to their backs. F atomic number 18well. MACBETH I hope your horses are fast and surefooted. And with that, I send you to them. Farewell. passing gameBANQUO BANQUOexits. 45 Let every man be master of his time Till s all the same at night.To make guild The sweeter welcome, we get out deliver ourself Till suppertime alone. While then, God be with you Everybody may do as they please until seven oclock tonight. In set out to make your company even more enjoy competent, Im going to keep to myself until suppertime. Until then, God be with you Original Text Modern Text Exeunt all exceptMACBETHand aSERVANT Everyone exits exceptMACBETHand aSERVANT Sirrah, a news program with you. Attend those men Our pleasure? (to theSERVANT)You there, let me have a sacred scripture with you. Are those men waiting for me? SERVANT They are, my lord, wi cat valiumt the palace gate. SERVANT Theyre waiting o utside the palace gate, my lord. MACBETH Bring them originally us. MACBETH Bring them to me. sackingSERVANT TheSERVANTexits. 5055606570 To be thus is vigour, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be feared. Tis oft he dares, And to that dauntless temper of his theme He hath a science that doth guide his valor To act in safety. at that place is none only when he Whose being I do fear, and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antonys was by Caesar.He chid the sisters When first they sit the get wind of king upon me And no-goode them speak to him. and then, prophetlike, They hailed him father to a line of kings. Upon my enquiry they placed a fruitless cr make And put a waste material scepter in my grip, indeedce to be wrenched with an unlineal choke, No son of tap succeeding. If t be so, For Banquos issue have I filed my mind For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered Put ranc ors in the watercraft of my peace Only for them and mine eternal jewel Given to the third estate enemy of man, To make them kings, the assimilated of Banquo kingsRather than so, come fate into the list, And headliner me to th utterance. Whos there? To be the king is nothing if Im not safe as the king. Im very hydrophobic of Banquo. at that places well-nighthing noble about him that makes me fear him. Hes pass oning to take risks, and his mind never stops playacting. He has the perception to act bravely but also safely. Im not afraid of anyone but him. Around him, my guardian angel is frightened, just as Mark Antonys angel supposedly feared Octavius Caesar. Banquo chided the witches when they first called me king, asking them to tell him his take future.Then, like prophets, they telld him the father to a line of kings. They gave me a crown and a scepter that I cant pass on. someone outside my family will take these things away from me, since no son of mine will take my place as king. If this is true, then Ive pain my conscience and murdered the gracious Duncan for Banquos sons. Ive ruined my own peace for their benefit. Ive handed over my everlasting soul to the rally so that they could be kings. Banquos sons, kings Instead of watching that happen, I will challenge fate to battle and fight to the death. Whos there landSERVANTand two manslayerS TheSERVANTcomes back in with tworeceiverS Original Text Modern Text 75 Now go to the inlet and beat stop there till we call. Now go to the door and stay there until I call for you. ExitSERVANT TheSERVANTexits. Was it not yesterday we spoke together? Wasnt it just yesterday that we spoke to to each one other? low gear liquidator It was, so please your highness. FIRST receiver It was yesterday, your highness. 8085 MACBETH Well then, now Have you considered of my speeches?Know That it was he, in the times past, which held you So under fortune, which you thought had been Our innocent self. This I made good to you In our last conference, passed in probation with you, How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might To half a soul and to a notion crazed assure, Thus did Banquo. MACBETH Well, did you telephone about what I said? You should sack out that it was Banquo who made your lives hell for so long, which you always thought was my fault. But I was innocent. I showed you the proof at our last meeting.I explained how you were deceived, how you were thwarted, the things that were used over against you, who was working against you, and a lot of other things that would entice even a half-wit or a crazy individual to utter, Banquo did it FIRST liquidator You made it known to us. FIRST receiver You explained it all. 90 MACBETH I did so, and went further, which is now Our point of second meeting. Do you find Your application so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? Are yo u so gospeled To pray for this good man and for his issue, Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave And beggared yours unceasingly? MACBETH I did that and more, which brings me to the point of this second meeting. Are you so patient and forgiving that youre going to let him forth the hook? Are you so pious that you would pray for this man and his children, a man who has pushed you toward an early grave and put your family in poverty forever? FIRST murderer We are men, my liege. FIRST murderer We are men, my lord. 95100105110 MACBETH Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs.The valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which lavish nature Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive Particular addition, from the bill That writes them all alike. And so of men. Now, if you have a station in the file, Not i th pommel rank of manhood, say t, And I will put that air in your bosoms, Whose execution takes your enemy off, Grapples you to the heart and love of us, Who wear our health but sickly in his life, Which in his death were perfect. MACBETH Yes, youre part of the species called men.Just as hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, mutts, shaggy lapdogs, swimming dogs, and wolf-dog crossbreeds are all dogs. But if you list the various kinds of dogs according to their qualities, you can distinguish which breeds are fast or slow, which ones are clever, which ones are watchdogs, and which ones hunters. You can classify each dog according to the inseparable gifts that separate it from all other dogs. Its the same with men. Now, if you occupy some place in the list of men that isnt down at the very bottom, tell me. Because if thats the case, I will tell you a plan that will get rid of your enemy and bring you encompassing(prenominal) to me.As long as Banqu o lives, I am sick. Ill be wholesome when he is all in(p). Original Text Modern Text foster murderer I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incense that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. heartbeat liquidator My lord, Ive been so kicked nigh by the world, and Im so angry, that I weart even care what I do. 115 FIRST MURDERER And I another So don with disasters, tugged with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it or be rid on t. FIRST MURDERER Im the same. Im so sick of bad luck and flap that Id risk my life on any bet, as long as it would either fix my life or end it once and for all. MACBETH two of you Know Banquo was your enemy. MACBETH You both know Banquo was your enemy. both MURDERERS True, my lord. BOTH MURDERERS Its true, my lord. 120125 MACBETH So is he mine and in such bloody distance That every minute of his being thrusts Against my nearst of life.And though I could With barefaced power sweep him from my sight And bid my will witness it, yet I essential not, For certain friends that are both his and mine, Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall Who I myself in love down. And thence it is, That I to your assistance do make love, Masking the business from the common look For sundry weighty reasons. MACBETH Hes my enemy too, and I hate him so much that every minute hes alive it eats away at my heart. Since Im king, I could simply use my power to get rid of him.But I cant do that, because he and I have friends in common whom I need, so I have to be able to moan and cry over his death in public even though Ill be the one who had him killed. Thats why I need your help right now. I have to hide my in truth plans from the public eye for many important reasons. Original Text Modern Text 130 help MURDERER We shall, my lord, Perform what you command us. secondment MURDERER Well do what you want us to, my lord. FIRST MURDERER though our lives FIRS T MURDERER Though our lives 135140 MACBETH Your spirits shine through you.Within this hour at most I will advise you where to plant yourselves, familiarize you with the perfect spy o th time, The moment on t for t must be make tonight, And something from the palace always thought That I posit a clearness. And with him To leave no rubs nor botches in the work Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his fathers, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart. Ill come to you anon. MACBETH (interrupts him)I can contrive the determination in your eyes. Within the next hour Ill tell you where to go and exactly when to strike.It must be through tonight, away from the palace. ceaselessly remember that I must be free from suspicion. For the plan to work perfectly, you must kill both Banquo and his son, Fleance, who keeps him company. Getting rid of Fleance is as important to me as knocking off Banquo. Each of you s hould make up your own mind about whether youre going to do this. Ill come to you soon. BOTH MURDERERS We are resolved, my lord. BOTH MURDERERS We have decided, my lord. Were in. 145 MACBETH Ill call upon you straight. Abide within. MACBETH Ill call for you soon. Stay inside. ExeuntMURDERERS TheMURDERERSexit. It is concluded. Banquo, thy souls f watery, If it find nirvana, must find it out tonight. The deal is closed. Banquo, if your soul is going to make it to heaven, tonights the night. Exit He exits. ACT 3 SCEN 2 Original Text Modern Text Enter doll MACBETHand aSERVANT gentlewoman MACBETHand aSERVANTenter. maam MACBETH Is Banquo done for(p) from court? LADY MACBETH Has Banquo left the court? SERVANT Ay, madam, but returns again tonight. SERVANT Yes, madam, but hell be back tonight. LADY MACBETH Say to the king I would attend his leisure For a few words. LADY MACBETH Go tell the king I want to talk to him for a few minutes. 5 SERVANT Madam, I will. SERVANT No problem, madam. ExitSERVANT TheSERVANTexits. LADY MACBETH Naughts had, alls spent, Where our desire is got without content. Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. LADY MACBETH If you get what you want and youre still not happy, youve spent everything and gained nothing. Its better to be the person who gets murdered than to be the killer and be tormented with anxiety. EnterMACBETH MACBETHenters. 10 How now, my lordWhy do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Things without all remedy Should be without regard. Whats done is done. Whats going on, my lord? Why are you keeping to yourself, with only your sad thoughts to keep you company? Those thoughts should have died when you killed the men youre thinking about. If you cant fix it, you shouldnt give it a second thought. Whats done is done. 152025 MACBETH We have scorched the snake, not killed it. Shell close and be herself whilst our poor venom Remains in danger of her former tooth.But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the sorrow of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In active ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave. afterward lifes fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst nor steel nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. MACBETH We have slashed the snake but not killed it. It will heal and be as good as new, and well be threatened by its fangs once again.But the universe can fall apart, and heaven and earth crumble, before Ill eat my meals in fear and transcend my nights tossing and turning with these nightmares Ive been having. Id rather be dead than endure this endless mental torture and harrowing sleep depriva tion. We killed those men and sent them to rest in peace so that we could gain our own peace. Duncan lies in his grave, through with lifes troubles, and hes quiescence well. We have already done the worst we can do to him with our treason. After that, nothing can hurt him furthernot weapons, poison, rebellion, invasion, or anything else. Original Text Modern Text 30 LADY MACBETH Come on, lovable my lord, Sleek oer your rugged images. Be bright and jovial Among your guests tonight. LADY MACBETH Come on, relax, dear. Put on a happy face and look cheerful and agreeable for your guests tonight. 35 MACBETH So shall I, love, And so, I pray, be you. Let your remembrance Apply to Banquo present him eminence, Both with eye and tongue unsafe the while that we Must lave our honors in these flattering streams, And make our faces vizards to our patrol wagon, Disguising what they are. MACBETH Thats exactly what Ill do, my love, and I hope youll do the same. Give Banquo your particul ar attention. Talk to him and look at him in a way that will make him feel important. Were in a dangerous situation, where we have to flatter him and hide our true feelings. LADY MACBETH You must leave this. LADY MACBETH You have to stop talking like this. MACBETH Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear married woman Thou knowst that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. MACBETH Argh I feel like my mind is full of scorpions, my dear wife. You know that Banquo and his son Fleance are still alive. 40 LADY MACBETH But in them natures copys not eterne. LADY MACBETH But they cant live forever. 45 MACBETH thithers comfort yet they are assailable. Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloistered f write down, ere to black Hecates summons The shard-borne beetle with his moderate hums Hath rung nights yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful beak. MACBETH Thats comforting. They can be killed, its true. So be cheerful. Before the bat flies through the castle, and before the dung beetle makes his little humming noise to tell us its nighttime, a dreadful deed will be done. LADY MACBETH Whats to be done? LADY MACBETH What are you going to do? Original Text Modern Text 5055 MACBETH Be innocent of the knowledge, dear chuck, Till thou extol the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and profligate to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse Whiles nights black agents to their preys do rouse. Thou marvelst at my words but hold thee still.Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. So, prithee, go with me. MACBETH Its better you dont know about it until after its done, when you can applaud it. (to the night)Come, night, and blindfold the kindhearted day. Use your bloody and invisible hand to fleece up Banquos lease on life, which keeps me in fear. (to himse lf)The skys getting dark, and the crow is returning home to the woods. The gentle creatures of the day are falling asleep, while nights predators are waking up to look for their prey. (toLADY MACBETH)You seem surprised at my words, but dont question me yet.Bad deeds force you to commit more bad deeds. So please, come with me. Exeunt They exit Original Text Modern Text Enter threeMURDERERS The twoMURDERERSenter with a thirdMURDERER. FIRST MURDERER But who did bid thee join with us? FIRST MURDERER But who told you to come here and join us? third gear MURDERER Macbeth. THIRD MURDERER Macbeth. 5 SECOND MURDERER He needs not our mis curse, since he delivers Our offices and what we have to do To the direction just. SECOND MURDERER We can trust this guy.He was given exactly the same orders we were. 10 FIRST MURDERER Then stand with us. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveler quick To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The sub ject of our watch. FIRST MURDERER Then stay with us. Theres still a bit of daylight in the sky. Now all the late travellers are hurrying to take a shit their inns. Banquo is almost here. THIRD MURDERER Hark, I hear horses. THIRD MURDERER Listen I hear horses. BANQUO (within)Give us a light there, ho BANQUO (from offstage)Hey, give us some light here SECOND MURDERER Then tis he the rest That are within the note of expectation Already are i th court. SECOND MURDERER That must be him. The rest of the kings guests are already inside. FIRST MURDERER His horses go about. FIRST MURDERER You can hear his horses moving around as the servants take them to the stables. 15 THIRD MURDERER Almost a mile but he does usually So all men dofrom hence to the palace gate Make it their whirl. THIRD MURDERER Its almost a mile to the palace gate, but Banquo, like everybody else, usually walks from here to the palace. EnterBANQUOandFLEANCEwith a torch BANQUOandFLEANCEenter with a torc h. Act 3, Scene 3, Page 2 Original Text Modern Text SECOND MURDERER A light, a light SECOND MURDERER Here comes a light Here comes a light THIRD MURDERER Tis he. THIRD MURDERER Thats him. FIRST MURDERER Stand to t. FIRST MURDERER Prepare yourselves. BANQUO It will be pelting tonight. BANQUO It will rain tonight. FIRST MURDERER Let it come down. FIRST MURDERER Then let the rain come down. TheMURDERERSattemptBANQUO TheMURDERERSattackBANQUO. 20 BANQUO O treachery Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly Thou may st revenge O slave BANQUO Oh, this is treachery Get out of here, good Fleance, run, run, run Someday you can get revenge. Oh, you bastard BANQUOdies. ExitFLEANCE BANQUOdies. FLEANCEescapes. THIRD MURDERER Who did strike out the light? THIRD MURDERER Who put out the light? FIRSTMURDERER Was t not the way? FIRST MURDERER Wasnt that the best thing to do? THIRD MURDERER Theres but one down.The son is fled. THIRD MURDERER Theres only one body here. The son ran away. SECOND MURDERER We have lost best half of our affair. SECOND MURDERER We failed in half of our mission. FIRST MURDERER Well, lets away and say how much is done. FIRST MURDERER Well, lets get out of here and tell Macbeth what we did accomplish. Exeunt They exit. Original Text Modern Text spreading prepared. EnterMACBETH,LADY MACBETH,ROSS,LENNOX,LORDS, and attendants. The stage is set for a banquet. MACBETHenters withLADY MACBETH,ROSS,LENNOX,LORDS, and their attendants. MACBETH You know your own degrees sit down. At first And last, the hearty welcome. MACBETH You know your own ranks, so you know where to sit. Sit down. From the highest to the lowest of you, I bid you a hearty welcome. TheLORDSsit TheLORDSsit down. LORDS Thanks to your majesty. LORDS Thanks to your majesty. 5 MACBETH Ourself will mingle with society And play the humble host. Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time We will require her welcome. MACBETH I will walk around a nd mingle with all of you, playing the humble host.My wife will stay in her royal chair, but at the appropriate time I will have her welcome you all. LADY MACBETH Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends, For my heart speaks they are welcome. LADY MACBETH Say welcome to all of our friends for me, sir, for in my heart they are all welcome. EnterFIRST MURDERERat the door TheFIRST MURDERERappears at the door. 10 MACBETH See, they encounter thee with their hearts thanks. Both sides are even. Here Ill sit i th midst. Be large in mirth. Anon well drink a measure The table round. MACBETH And they respond to you with their hearts as well. The table is full on both sides. I will sit here in the middle. Be free and happy. Soon we will toast around the table. (aside toFIRST MURDERER)Theres blood upon thy face. (approaching the door and speaking to theMURDERER)Theres blood on your face. FIRST MURDERER Tis Banquos then. FIRST MURDERER Then it must be Banquos. 15 MACBETH Tis b etter thee without than he within. Is he dispatched? MACBETH Id rather see his blood splattered on your face than flowing through his veins. Did you arrest him off?