The cast of Macbeth
The people who make Macbeth move — what they want, who they love, who they hate, and how each one fits the story. Tap any name to read more.
Father of Fleances
Father of Malcolm and Donalbains
Macduff (husband); Son (child)s
husband: Macbeths
Married to Lady Macbeth; no childrens
Wife and children (all murdered by Macbeth's orders)s
Son of King Duncan; brother to Donalbains
Scottish nobilitys
father of Young Siwards
father; mothers
Other characters
First Witch
A supernatural harbinger of fate; one of three witches who speak prophecies and set Macbeth's tragedy in motion
Lennox
A Scottish thane; witness to Macbeth's rise and observer of Scotland's moral disorder
A Doctor of Physic
Physician to Macbeth; witness to Lady Macbeth's descent into madness
First Murderer
A hired assassin; Macbeth's instrument of paranoid violence
Second Witch
One of three supernatural beings who prophesy Macbeth's rise and fall
All (Chorus)
Collective voice of witches, lords, soldiers, and the play's moral witness
Third Witch
One of three supernatural sisters who prophesy Macbeth's rise and fall
Gentlewoman
Lady Macbeth's attendant and witness to her descent into madness
The Porter
Comic gatekeeper of Macbeth's castle; guardian of the threshold between worlds
Messenger
A herald bringing urgent news of the approaching English army
Second Murderer
Hired assassin, one of two men contracted to murder Banquo and Fleance
Third Murderer
Hired assassin; the unnamed third conspirator in Banquo's murder
Hear every line of Macbeth, narrated.
