| Flap 1 |
Flap 2 |
| The Witches or Weird Sisters | Three hags who practice black magic. |
| Duncan | King of Scotland; murdered by Macbeth |
| Malcolm | Duncan's son, Donalbain's brother and heir to the Scottish throne. |
| Donalbain | Duncan's son and Malcolm's brother; After the king's murder, he flees to Ireland in fear of his life. |
| Macbeth | The Thane of Glamis and a general in Duncan's army. The witches predict that he will be King of Scotland. |
| Banquo | A nobleman and a general in Duncan's army. With Macbeth he encounters the Weird sisters and from their prophecies learns that his descendants will be kings. |
| Lady Macbeth | Driven insane by guilt and commits suicide. |
| Macduff | The Thane of Fife who kills Macbeth; He was "untimely ripp'd from his mother's womb." |
| Fleance | Banquo's son. Macbeth attempts to assassinate him along with his father in order to thwart the witches' prophecy that Banquo's descendants will become kings. |
| Lady Macduff | Macduff's wife |
