...day I have not seen' (1.3.38)) echoes the lines the witches chant in unison to close the first scene ('Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air' (1.1.11—12)), the effect is to position Macbeth within the framework of the witches' world rather...

...meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH I come, Grimalkin. SECOND WITCH Paddock calls. THIRD WITCH Anon. ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.1-11) Thunder and lightening was a familiar early modern theatrical convention signalling the...

...to which the monstrous witches had already prepared the way, first through their joint observation Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.11-12) and then by one of them announcing A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And mounch'd,...

...WITCH There to meet with Macbeth. 1 WITCH I come, Graymalkin! 2 WITCH Paddockcalls. 3 WITCH Anon! ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. (I, i, 1-12). PRIMA STREGA Quando torneremo a incontrarci, noi tre? Nel tuono, nel lampo o nella pioggia?...