Macbeth: Dramatis Personae
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Duncan, King of Scotland
Malcolm, Donalbain, his sons
Macbeth, Banquo, generals of the King's army
Macduff, Lennox, Ross, Menteth, Angus, Cathness, noblemen of Scotland
Fleance, son to Banquo
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 Captain
A Porter
An Old Man
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Gentlewomen attending on Lady Macbeth
Hecate
Three Witches
Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers,
Attendants, and Messengers; the Ghost of Banquo, and other Apparitions
Scene: Scotland and, only in 4.3, England
Next: Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1 (With Annotations)
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Notes on Macbeth
 "I am prepared to admit that Macbeth's physical courage was unquestionable, that he was ambitious and unprincipled, that he probably entertained the thought of murder before the meeting with the witches, that his character rapidly degenerates in the last acts, that his love for his wife, at first of singular tenderness and intensity, is latterly somewhat impaired, that his chief point of distinction from the vulgar usurper and assassin is a vivid, poetical, masterful imagination." O. W. Firkins. Read on...
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