The document provides a summary of the key events and locations in each act of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Act 1 takes place after a battle in a camp, on a heath, and in the palace in Forres. Act 2 is set in Macbeth's castle where he kills King Duncan. Act 3 details the murder of Banquo and Fleance. Act 4 includes apparitions shown to Macbeth and the death of Lady Macduff. Act 5 concludes with Macbeth's death at Dunsinane castle, allowing Malcolm to become king.

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2. ACT 1
 TIME
 After the battle
 “when the hurlyburly’s done,
when the battle’s lost and won”
- Second Witch (pg 23)

3. PLACE
A camp *scene 2
○ Captain reports about the battle to King Duncan
A heath *scene 3
○ Macbeth and Banquo meet the Witches who have been
waiting for them
Forres (a room in the palace)
*scene 4
○ Duncan thanks Macbeth and Banquo for their services
Inverness (a room in Macbeth’s
castle) *scene 5, 6, 7

4. ACT 2
 TIME
 Not mentioned
 PLACE
 In Macbeth’s castle
○ Outside Duncan’s room *scene 1
 Banquo is nervous and does not want to sleep
○ In Duncan’s room *scene 2
 Macbeth kills King Duncan
○ Castle’s gate *scene 3
 A drunken Porter wants to open the gate
 Outside the castle *scene 4
○ Ross and the Old Man discuss the various disturbances in nature
that took place on the night of Duncan’s murder

5. ACT 3
 TIME
 Not mentioned
 PLACE
 Forres (a room in the palace) *scene 1
○ Macbeth orders the Murderers to kill Banquo and
Fleance
 Another room *scene 2
○ Lady Macbeth asks her husband what he plans to do
but he tells her to wait and see
 A park, with a road leading to the palace *scene 3
○ Banquo is killed but Fleance escapes

6.  A room of state in the palace *scene 4
○ Macbeth is happy that at least Banquo is dead
○ Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost
— The heath *scene 5
• Hecate rebukes the three Witches for consorting
with Macbeth without her knowledge or
permission
— Somewhere in Scotland *scene 6
• Lennox asks the other Lord if he knows the
whereabouts of Macduff and learns that Macduff
has gone to England to raise an army to fight
Macbeth

7. ACT 4
 TIME
 Not mentioned
 PLACE
 A house in Forres (in the middle a boiling cauldron)
*scene 1
○ Hecate enters and commends the Witches
○ Macbeth sees three apparitions and a procession
○ Lennox tells Macbeth about Macduff’s flight
 Fife (a room in Macduff’s castle) *scene 2
○ Lady Macduff and her son was killed
 England (a room in the King’s palace) *scene 3
○ Malcolm tests Macduff’s loyalty and honesty
○ Ross tells Macduff that Macbeth has had his family
slaughtered

8. ACT 5
 TIME
 Not mentioned
 PLACE
 Dunsinane (a room in the castle) *scene 1
○ The Gentlewoman has told the Doctor of Lady
Macbeth’s sleepwalking
 The country near Dunsinane *scene 2
○ The Scottish lords are marching to meet Malcolm’s
forces near Birnam Wood
 Dunsinane (a room in the castle) *scene 3
○ Macbeth tells Seyton to put on his armour

9.  The country near Dunsinane (a wood
view) *scene 4
○ Malcolm orders each soldiers to cut a branch and
hold it before him to disguise their real number
 Dunsinane (within the castle) *scene 5
○ Seyton tells him about Lady Macbeth’s death
 A plain before the castle *scene 6
○ Malcolm orders his men to cast off their camouflage

10.  Another part of the plain *scene 7
○ Macbeth fights and slays Young Siward
 Another part of the field *scene 8
○ Macduff enters and challenges Macbeth to
fight
 Within the castle *scene 9
○ Ross inform Siward that his son has been
killed
○ Macduff enters with Macbeth’s severed head
○ Malcolm becomes the new king