Much Ado about Macbeth

by Randy McCharles

  Author Biography

  RANDY MCCHARLES is a writer of speculative fiction, usually of the wickedly humorous variety, with short stories and novellas available from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, House of Anansi, and Reality Skimming Press. He is the recipient of several Aurora Awards (Canada's most prestigious award for speculative fiction). In 2013, his short story Ghost-B-Gone Incorporated won the House of Anansi 7-day Ghost Story Contest.

  In addition to writing, Randy chairs the award-winning When Words Collide Festival for Readers and Writers as well as organizing various reading and craft events for writers.

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  Table of Contents

  –Act I–

  Scene 1: A Desert Place

  Scene 2: The Play’s the Thing

  Scene 3: Full of Scorpions Is My Mind

  Scene 4: What Fools These Mortals Be

  Scene 5: Under a Hand Accursed!

  Scene 6: What Noise Is This?

  Scene 7: Cruel Are the Times

  Scene 8: The Vile Blows and Buffets of the World

  Scene 9: ’Twould Have Anger’d Any Heart Alive

  Scene 10: Receive What Cheer You May

  Scene 11: What’s Done Cannot Be Undone

  Scene 12: Let Not Your Ears Despise My Tongue

  Scene 13: Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Scene 14: Out, Out, Brief Candle!

  Scene 15: A Thing Most Strange and Certain

  Scene 16: The Shot of Accident nor Dart of Chance

  Scene 17: Contradict Thyself, and Say It Is Not So

  Scene 18: Now Is the Time of Help

  –Act II–

  Scene 1: And Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy

  Scene 2: With Thy Keen Sword Impress

  Scene 3: Unwelcome Things

  Scene 4: And on Thy Blade and Dudgeon Gouts of Blood

  Scene 5: This Is the Air-Drawn Dagger

  Scene 6: Thou Liest, Thou Shag-Hair’d Villain!

  Scene 7: Blood Hath Been Shed

  Scene 8: Give Us a Light There, Ho!

  Scene 9: Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog

  Scene 10: To the Amazement of Mine Eyes

  Scene 11: Let This Habit Make Thee Blush!

  Scene 12: Is This a Dagger Which I See before Me?

  –Act III–

  Scene 1: The Greatest Error of All the Rest

  Scene 2: And an Eternal Curse Fall on You!

  Scene 3: Methought I Heard a Voice Cry

  Scene 4: Come, You Spirits

  Scene 5: Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit!

  Scene 6: Here Comes the Good Macduff

  Scene 7: Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!

  Scene 8: Lay on, Macduff

  Scene 9: Ask Me What Question Thou Canst

  Scene 10: Let Us Call Thee Devil

  Scene 11: Give the Devil His Due

  Scene 12: Or Have We Eaten on the Insane Root

  Scene 13: I Pray You, Deliver Him This Petition

  Scene 14: Consort with Me in Loud and Dear Petition

  –Act IV–

  Scene 1: Wicked Dreams Abuse the Curtain’d Sleep

  Scene 2: Ghosts Will Haunt Me Still

  Scene 3: Perilous Stuff Which Weighs upon the Heart

  Scene 4: Banquo’s Buried; He Cannot Come out on’s Grave

  Scene 5: Round about the Cauldron Go

  Scene 6: Macbeth Does Murder Sleep

  Scene 7: Our Fears in Banquo Stick Deep

  Scene 8: I Dreamt Last Night of the Three Weird Sisters

  Scene 9: Aroint Thee, Witch!

  Scene 10: Friends, Romans, Countrymen

  Scene 11: All Goes Worse than I Have Power to Tell

  Scene 12: Our Fears Do Make Us Traitors

  Scene 13: And Question This Most Bloody Piece of Work

  –Act V–

  Scene 1: Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece!

  Scene 2: Who Shall Bear the Guilt of Our Great Quell?

  Scene 3: Bring Me No More Reports

  Scene 4: Angels Are Bright Still

  Scene 5: How Now, You Secret, Black, and Midnight Hags!

  Scene 6: Let Not Light See My Black and Deep Desires

  Scene 7: Fears and Scruples Shake Us

  Scene 8: There the Grown Serpent Lies

  Scene 9: The Instruments of Darkness

  Scene 10: If Thou Speak’st False

  –Act VI–

  Scene 1: How Now, Hecate! You Look Angerly

  Scene 2: The Instruments of Darkness Tell Us Truths

  Scene 3: Double, Double Toil and Trouble

  Scene 4: I Am Sick at Heart

  Scene 5: Embrace the Fate of That Dark Hour

  Scene 6: When the Battle's Lost and Won

  Scene 7: Much Ado about Macbeth

  Acknowlegements

  Author Biography