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