Macbeth

William Shakespeare, Vittorio Gassmann

• Editore: Mondadori
• Anno: 2015
• ISBN:
  9788852058141
• Argomento: Literature
• Categoria: Drama

Scritto dopo Otello e Re Lear, Macbeth conclude la grande fase tragica di Shakespeare. Definita dagli studiosi, di volta in volta, tragedia dell'assassinio, del male, della dannazione, dell'ambizione, della paura, l'opera è dominata dalla figure di Macbeth e di Lady Macbeth. Grandi nell'infamia, ma non monolitici nella loro crudeltà, i due protagonisti sono percorsi da contraddizioni e incertezze che conferiscono loro quella grandezza tragica in cui si manifesta la sublime capacità di Shakespeare di indagare l'animo umano.
Mirabile, a questo proposito, la geniale scena del sonnambulismo che, contrapposto alla sicurezza iniziale di Lady Macbeth, getta una luce nuova e indecifrabile su questo personaggio, facendone una delle figure capitali del teatro europeo di tutti i tempi.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

La tragedia di Macbeth

Characters

Duncan, King of Scotland

Malcolm, Donalbain, his sons

Macbeth, General of the King’s army

Banquo, General

Macduff

Lennox, Ross, Menteth, Angus, Cathness, Thanes of Scotland

Fleance, Banquo’s son

Seyward, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English army

Young Seyward, his son

Seyton, Macbeth’s armour-bearer

Son of Macduff

A Captain

An English Doctor

A Scottish Doctor

A Porter

An Old Man

A Lord

Lady Macbeth

Wife of Macduff

Gentlewoman attendant on Lady Macbeth

Three Weird Sisters

(Hecat and three other witches)

Apparitions

Three Murderers

Other Murderers

Lords, gentlemen, officers, soldiers, servants, attendants, messengers

I. I.

Thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES

FIRST WITCH

When shall we three meet again?

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH

When the hurly-burly’s done,

When the battle’s lost and won.

THIRD WITCH

That will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH

Where the place? —/

SECOND WITCH /— Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH

There to meet with Macbeth.

FIRST WITCH

I come, Grey-Malkin. —/

SECOND WITCH /— Padock calls! —/

THIRD WITCH /— Anon!

ALL

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Exeunt

I. II.

Alarum within
Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with attendants, meeting a bleeding CAPTAIN

KING

What bloody man is that? He can report,

As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt

The newest state. —/

MALCOLM /— This is the sergeant

Who like a good and hardy soldier fought

’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!

Say to the King the knowledge of the broil

As thou didst leave it. —/

CAPTAIN /— Doubtful it stood,

As two spent swimmers that do cling together

And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald –

Worthy to be a rebel, for to that

The multiplying villainies of nature

Do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles

Of kerns and galloglasses is supplied,

And fortune on his damnèd quarrel¹ smiling

Showed like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak:

For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name –

Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,

Which smoked with bloody execution,

Like valour’s minion carvèd out his passage

Till he faced t...

Indice dei contenuti

• Copertina
• Frontespizio
• Introduzione di Paolo Bertinetti
• Cronologia
• Bibliografia
• Nota di Vittorio Gassman
• Avvertenza
• LA TRAGEDIA DI MACBETH
• THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
• Postfazione di Yves de Bonnefoy
• Copyright