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here", and folding his arras at "He's here in double trust".
A "great change" is indicated in the Harvard copy at the
lines:
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaultin^ ambition, which o f erleaps itself
and falls on the other side.
vith Lo.dy Macbeth'e entrance the scene becomes a further
exploration of their relationship, reflected in the physical
reactions of the two characters. The prompt copy indicates a
"sigh" in response to Lady Macbeth's "Know you not, he has?"
and i[acboth f s next speech - "We will proceed no further in
this business..." - is "quick I' During Lady !/!acbeth»s "low and
amazed" remonstrntions (".Vas the hope crunk/ W; erein you
dressed yourself?") acbeth crossed to the stage loft and cat
down, to jump up with "prithee peo.ccj . At the end of the
scene, Lady ..lacbcth is "pettish anc : r;*>e)ain$X;y annoyed":
..'ho dares receive it other, ^
AD v;c shall rarke our griefs and clamor roar
Upon his death? ^
But v/lion, after a ;iaurje and a silent look, Moebeth agrees to
the plan, "die places both hands on hi c shoulders admiringly".
They leave t.ue stage by separate doorr;, stage right and left,
but "she goes off L§ft]& returns hastily to R(i lit] door as
curtain foils".
The first scene of Irving's second act is made up of the
first three scenes of Act Two, the fourth oceno (Ross, the
Old i-1an and1 Macduff) being omitted. The scene v.a.3 t-ii courtyard
of the castle, roofed over and v/ith a balcony at the back. A
"heavy staircase" camo dov;n on the left, whilst -;.,.< t-io right
v;indinr, stone steps led round c. butress to ruiicrn'c .room rjid
that of the cro :^mc (g'ho StrY::o). The Pall Mall Gazette complained
agrin of anom lies in the lifting, for tiie only visible
source of light r/n.s a "single pendant Imp", and Irvinr, having
roofed in the yard, "-..ac forced to hrve recource to a strong
shaft of li..:c-Light obviously proceeding from nov;?i oro at rll".
lien the r.l^.rm vr c r ised, the ctage cur'.fcnly filled v/ith
attendants casting "over all...the lurid, cmoky li,-;ht from
wruiy torches" ("'ho ota/-:e). In The Era the servants are described