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The Macbeth Study Quiz

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Macbeth and Banquo come across the Weird Sisters on a dark heath. We see immediately that Macbeth has a strange connection to the horrible hags, as he echoes their famous words spoken earlier in the drama: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" (1.3.38). For full explanatory notes for this scene (1.3), please click here.

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Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath. From Stories from Shakespeare's Tragedies. Illus. John Martin.