Excerpt from The Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays It will be remembered that it is in the first scene of the first act that Macbeth and Banquo are returning victorious from the battlefield when the witches are encountered and that they hail Macbeth as thane of Cawdor, an honor the king is about to confer upon him and of which he is entirely ignorant. They couple this information. With the prophecy that he is to be king of Scot land. Before he leaves the spot he learns that the first part of the prophecy has been swiftly ...
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Excerpt from The Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays It will be remembered that it is in the first scene of the first act that Macbeth and Banquo are returning victorious from the battlefield when the witches are encountered and that they hail Macbeth as thane of Cawdor, an honor the king is about to confer upon him and of which he is entirely ignorant. They couple this information. With the prophecy that he is to be king of Scot land. Before he leaves the spot he learns that the first part of the prophecy has been swiftly fulfilled, and he naturally has faith in the rest of it; and, his mind full of the possibility of attaining the crown, he promptly begins plotting to that end. Thus is the basis for the whole action of the play laid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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