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Where are Macbeth and Banquo during this conversation: "We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed / In England and in Ireland"?

When Banquo and Macbeth discuss Banquo's travel plans as well as the former king's sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, they are at Macbeth's home at Dunsinane.   Macbeth's home when he was Thane of Glamis was in Inverness, but when he becomes king, he moves to the fortress at Dunsinane.  It is here where he hosts a banquet for all his nobles, except for Macduff (who has tacitly refused the invitation) and Banquo (who Macbeth has had murdered).  It is also here where he is killed by Macduff and where Malcolm is declared the new king of Scotland, as his father intended he should be.  During the conversation you cite, Macbeth complains to Banquo that he's heard rumors that Duncan's sons have been abroad, inventing stories about how their father died.  

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