Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare)

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Macbeth on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:

The complete text of the original play

A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language

A complete list of characters with descriptions

Plenty of helpful commentary.

Shakespeare’s classic tale of witches, murder, and madness.

“Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,

Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon’s blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.”

Macbeth: IV.i 10-19; 35-38