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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Act IV: I and II

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Berkeley, David Shelley
Affiliation: Professor Of English, Oklahoma State University

Act IV: I and II

Act IV, Scene i

Plot summary.

The scene occurs in a cavern in the middle of which is a boiling
cauldron. The Three Witches enter. As they speak a charm, with which they hope
to secure Macbeth, they throw into their boiling pot such parts of repulsive
animals as the eye of a newt, the wool of a bat, and a lizard's leg. The
refrain of their charm is "Double, double toil and trouble:/ Fire, burn; and,
cauldron, bubble." When they are ...

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