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Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Then, review the photo, which shows the scene being acted out in a 2011 production of the play. Macduff’s son is attempting to protect his family by fighting the murderers who have come to kill them.Lady Macduff. What are these faces?First Murderer. Where is your husband?Lady Macduff. I hope in no place so unsanctifiedWhere such as thou mayst find him.First Murderer. He’s a traitor.Son. Thou liest, thou shag-hair’d villain!First Murderer. What, you egg![Stabs Macduff’s Son.]Young fry of treachery!Photo by Ellie Kurttz (c) RSC

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth. The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress meIn borrow’d robes?Angus. Who was the thane lives yet;But under heavy judgment bears that lifeWhich he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’dWith those of Norway, or did line the rebelWith hidden help [and] vantage, or that with bothHe labour’d in his country’s [wreck], I know not;But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d,Have overthrown him.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. King Duncan praises Macbeth and Banquo for their victory against the rebel forces.Duncan. Welcome hither:I have begun to plant thee, and will labourTo make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,That hast no less deserv’d, nor must be knownNo less to have done so, let me infold theeAnd hold thee to my heart. [Embraces BANQUO.]Banquo. There if I grow,The harvest is your own.

Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth, who is alone in his castle, is contemplating whether to kill Duncan.Macbeth. If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We’d jump the life to come. But in these casesWe still have judgment here; that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, returnTo plague the inventor; this even-handed justiceCommends the ingredients of our poison’d chaliceTo our own lips.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth, who has just killed Duncan, is speaking to Lady Macbeth.Macbeth. Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep,” the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,Chief nourisher in life’s feast,—Lady Macbeth. What do you mean?Macbeth. Still it cried, "Sleep no more!” to all the house:"Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore CawdorShall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.[Macbeth.] [To Ghost of BANQUO.] Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble