Lady Macduff

Family: Macduff · Role: lady · First appears: Macbeth · Act IV, Scene II

Life events

A messenger warns Lady Macduff to flee with her children because danger approaches.(Macbeth · Act IV, Scene II)
- “I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: If you will take a homely man’s advice, Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.”
Lady Macduff’s son is stabbed and dies while defending his father.(Macbeth · Act IV, Scene II)
- “What, you egg! [Stabbing him.] Young fry of treachery! SON. He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you! [_Dies. Exit Lady Macduff, crying ‘Murder!’ and pursued by the Murderers.]”

cousins with Ross (Ross explicitly addresses Lady Macduff as his cousin.) “My dearest coz, I pray you, school yourself: but, for your husband, He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The fits o’ th’ season. I dare not speak much further: But cruel are the times, when we are traitors, And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and move—I take my leave of you: Shall not be long but I’ll be here again. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before.—My pretty cousin, Blessing upon you!”

Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.