NOTE. It is not expected that the student will memorize the lists in the third and fourth columns; but the lists ought to give some impression of the amount and variety of activity in the spacious times of great Elizabeth, and the instructor will, of course, in going over the third list with his class, point out the significance of the translations from the classics, the influence of Seneca's "Ten Tragedies on the English Drama, the interest in composition indicated by such books as Puttenham's "Art of English Poesie," the effort to introduce classic metres into English verse, etc. Of course my list of books is a mere selection from Ryland's "Chronological Out lines of English Literature," and that, in turn, is only a small part of the total literary production. A shorter list would inevitably give the impression that Shakspere wrote more than all his contemporaries put together. FLEANCE, Son to Banquo. 28 SIWARD, earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces. Young SIWARD, his son. SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth. Boy, son to Macduff. An English Doctor, A Scotch Doctor. A Sergeant. A Porter. An Old Man. LADY MACBETH. LADY MACDUFF. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. SCENE: Scotland; England. ACT FIRST. SCENE I. A desert place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES. FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. SECOND WITCH. Paddock calls. Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with ATTENDANTS, meeting a bleeding SERGEANT. DUNCAN. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. MALCOLM. This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil SERGEANT. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless MacdonwaldWorthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him-from the western isles Like valour's minion carved out his passage Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, 10 20 Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, 30 DUNCAN. Dismay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? SERGEANT. Yes; As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. $ |