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Apuntes

PLAY PART 1 Macbeth ‘My hands are as red as yours. But my heart 1s not as white with fear as your heart.’ rN the time of this story, Duncan was the King of Scotland. Macbeth was a great lord and the leader of the Scottish army. Banquo was also a lord and an army leader. Macbeth had won a great battle against an army from Norway. He and Banquo were coming back from the battle, riding over some wild, open land in a storm. In the wildest part they saw three witches sitting around a fire. The witches stopped the two men. ‘Who are you?’ asked Banquo. ‘You look like women, but you have beards.’ ‘Speak!’ said Macbeth. “What are you?’ ‘Greetings, Macbeth, Lord of Glamis,’ the first witch said. ‘Greetings, Macbeth, Lord of Cawdor,’ the second witch said. ‘Greetings, Macbeth. You will be king,’ the third witch said. Then they turned to Banquo. ‘You will not be king,’ the third witch said. ‘But your children and your grandchildren will become kings.’ Macbeth and Banquo rode away from the witches. ‘I am already Lord of Glamis,’ said Macbeth, ‘but how can I become Lord of Cawdor? The Lord of Cawdor is still alive. And I do not believe that I will be king. They said your children will become kin...