We've just reached the summit of Pendle Hill in Lancashire when the image of the three wizened witches from Macbeth skips across my mind's eye. |
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Above all, Hicks reminds us that Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest ironists. |
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In a second scene from Macbeth, Lady Macbeth walks about the castle in a trance-like state, muttering psychotically. |
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While the attendant is gone, Macbeth spouts off about the danger that Banquo poses to Macbeth's position as king. |
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This goes double if I've costumed Lady Macbeth with a black leather miniskirt. |
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Many a man is the Macbeth of his own little world, and the measurement of evil is not the same as a body count. |
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She must curdle the milk, make Macbeth abjure his good qualities, if he is to act as she wishes. |
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Lady Macbeth feels that if her husband does not enjoy his royalty, then all of their deceit and treachery has been for nothing. |
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His presence and delivery of the lines encapsulated all my expectations of how Macbeth would act. |
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At the International Festival, Macbeth has taken a healthy amount of pummelling and stretching. |
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Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare. |
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When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma. |
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Macbeth cannot contemplate kingship for himself without imagining turning his sword against the king. |
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However, on this occasion, not even fortune could give Macdonwald the victory, because Macbeth held her in contempt and won the battle anyway. |
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Meanwhile Siward died, and the matter rested for a few years, Malcolm reigning as King of Cumbria, and Macbeth occupying the Scottish throne. |
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Miss Gazdowick will play Lady McDuff in Macbeth and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, while Mr Smith will play Duncan in Macbeth. |
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Macbeth is a schemer and plotter who is eventually undone by his own misdeeds. |
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He stars as Macbeth in Theatre Babel's memorable production of the Scottish play. |
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Immediately afterwards comes the news that the king has created Macbeth thane of Cawdor. |
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Macbeth invites Banquo to attend a dinner banquet in the evening as an honored guest. |
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The character of Millie, Eder says, remains a villainess rivaled only by Lady Macbeth in all of English theater and film. |
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Apart from the Faust music, his most remarkable work is the programmatic symphonic poem Macbeth. |
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This is a grasping, ambitious woman in the style of Lady Macbeth, who'll readily sacrifice people for her own gain. |
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Before long, he was playing the leads in Hamlet and Macbeth at Scottish Youth Theatre, then turned professional. |
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The tool that Lady Macbeth uses to galvanize her husband into action is humiliation. |
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The only real flash of colour in the whole production was the evening dress wore by Lady Macbeth as she plots murder with her husband. |
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They are three sisters who trick Macbeth into believing that he is invincible, which leads to his downfall. |
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McIntosh sees parallels with Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean villainess who famously asked for male characteristics as she plotted murder. |
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Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet. |
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Macbeth lives as an exemplum of the perverted hero, because of Shakespeare's ability to give life to every stage of his disastrous career. |
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The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth. |
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Although I am a fan of the mainstage at the Bard on the Beach, the intimate setting of the stage was perfect for the staging of Macbeth. |
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Macduff is a Scottish noble who suspects that Macbeth has murdered Duncan from the very beginning. |
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Her delivery of the scene in which Lady Macbeth unsexes herself to conspire with Macbeth in his becoming king was anti-climatic. |
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A Witch's Tangled Hare, a 1959 Warner Brothers cartoon, offers Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel in a pastiche of selections from Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. |
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Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth. |
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Macbeth looked Schim in the eyes and smiled as he pushed back his hood to reveal his face, a sight which chilled Schim 's blood though he had seen it many times before. |
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He had married, and had an affair, while he was writing Lady Macbeth, and the opera was alive with sexuality. |
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Macbeth thought for a second, his pupils narrowing to slits. |
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Tell be about the scene on the sofa where you and Lady Macbeth are plotting while scantily dressed. |
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Like the Porter in Macbeth, his role is to provide a moment of levity in otherwise grim and serious times. |
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The scene in which the host and hostess of the tavern screw their courage up before murdering Thomas Cole has been seen as an analogue to Macbeth. |
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This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay. |
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The witches generally represent some version of the Fates and make Macbeth believe that life is preordained. |
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In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted. |
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It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another. |
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Someone will be doing a Macbeth next year and set it in a parking garage in Istanbul and it will make perfect sense. |
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When I arrived for my audience with Soldera, the story had segued from Macbeth to Characters in Search of an Author. |
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When Macbeth arrives, she urges him to feign cheerfulness at the feast. |
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In this Pythonesque vision, Lady Macbeth is a vampish sexpot, while her husband is a dim-witted cuckold, less blighted by fatal flaws than fatal dorkiness. |
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Curry the progressive degeneration of Macbeth from the point of view of medieval theology. |
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There are stories of accidents, misfortunes and even deaths taking place during runs of Macbeth. |
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The cause of the riots was based on a conflict over two performances of Macbeth, and is usually ascribed to the curse. |
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The first professional performances of Macbeth in North America were probably those of The Hallam Company. |
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Karanth's Barnam Vana of 1979 had adapted Macbeth to the Yakshagana tradition of Karnataka, India. |
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Victoria Hill played Lady Macbeth and shared the screenplay credits with Wright. |
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The director considered her portrayal of Lady Macbeth to be the most sympathetic he had ever seen. |
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In 2014, Classic Alice wove a 10 episode arc placing its characters in the world of Macbeth. |
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Gu Wuwei's 1916 play The Usurper of State Power adapted both Macbeth and Hamlet as a parody of contemporary events in China. |
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Macbeth has been adapted into plays dealing with the political and cultural concerns of many nations. |
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Joe de Graft adapted Macbeth as a battle to take over a powerful corporation in Ghana in his 1972 Mambo or Let's Play Games, My Husband. |
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Other music influenced by the play includes Richard Strauss's 1890 symphonic poem Macbeth. |
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Johann Zoffany's depiction of Hannah Pritchard and David Garrick in Macbeth. |
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Joshua Reynolds depicted Sarah Siddons as The Muse of Tragedy, largely due to her triumph in the role of Lady Macbeth. |
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John Singer Sargent's painting of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in a gown decorated with green beetle wings. |
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Back in London, the company staged Macbeth, with Olivier in the title role. |
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Nesbitt, Naked Video and Still Game, while with dramas included Hamish Macbeth, Monarch of the Glen, and Sutherland's Law. |
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The Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's Macbeth used the fur of a bat in their brew. |
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They appear in English mythology as the Wyrdes, who were later adapted to become the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
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It was a review of Lady Macbeth, and it dripped with malice. |
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This conjures up the hellbroth made by the witches in Macbeth Act IV, Scene I, but I have some doubts as to the security of this context. |
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A battle culminates in Macduff's confrontation with Macbeth, who kills Young Siward in combat. |
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The scene in which Lady Macbeth seizes the daggers, as performed by Garrick and Mrs. |
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He is the historical equivalent of the character of the same name in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. |
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The latter reported that Macbeth was killed in the battle by Siward, but it is known that Macbeth outlived Siward by two years. |
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In 1057 various chroniclers report the death of Macbeth at Malcolm's hand, on 15 August 1057 at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire. |
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Then Ross comes and Duncan decides that Macbeth should take the title of Thane of Cawdor. |
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After witnessing his father Duncan's death, the young Canmore swears revenge on both Macbeth and his gargoyle ally, Demona. |
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Malcolm Canmore was an exile at Edward's court after Macbeth killed his father, Duncan I, and seized the Scottish throne. |
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He defeated Macbeth, and Malcolm, who had accompanied the expedition, gained control of southern Scotland. |
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By 1058 Malcolm had killed Macbeth in battle and taken the Scottish throne. |
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Duncan was killed in battle by Macbeth, who had a long and relatively successful reign. |
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The Swiss Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, a friend of William Blake, even translated Macbeth into German. |
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In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat in battle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son Malcolm. |
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A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. |
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Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. |
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The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. |
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Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. |
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The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. |
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In the following scene, Macbeth and Banquo discuss the weather and their victory. |
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The first prophecy is thus fulfilled, and Macbeth, previously skeptical, immediately begins to harbour ambitions of becoming king. |
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Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about the witches' prophecies. |
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Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband's uncertainty and wishes him to murder Duncan in order to obtain kingship. |
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A porter opens the gate and Macbeth leads them to the king's chamber, where Macduff discovers Duncan's body. |
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Macbeth murders the guards to prevent them from professing their innocence, but claims he did so in a fit of anger over their misdeeds. |
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The rightful heirs' flight makes them suspects and Macbeth assumes the throne as the new King of Scotland as a kinsman of the dead king. |
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Despite his success, Macbeth, also aware of this part of the prophecy, remains uneasy. |
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Macbeth invites Banquo to a royal banquet, where he discovers that Banquo and his young son, Fleance, will be riding out that night. |
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Fearing Banquo's suspicions, Macbeth arranges to have him murdered, by hiring two men to kill them, later sending a Third Murderer. |
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At a banquet, Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment. |
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Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself. |
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The ghost departs and returns once more, causing the same riotous anger and fear in Macbeth. |
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Thirdly, a crowned child holding a tree states that Macbeth will be safe until Great Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill. |
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Macbeth is relieved and feels secure because he knows that all men are born of women and forests cannot move. |
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Macbeth realises that these are all Banquo's descendants having acquired kingship in numerous countries. |
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After the witches perform a mad dance and leave, Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England. |
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Macbeth orders Macduff's castle be seized, and, most cruelly, sends murderers to slaughter Macduff, as well as Macduff's wife and children. |
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Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed. |
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Macbeth boasts that he has no reason to fear Macduff, for he cannot be killed by any man born of woman. |
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Both Antony and Macbeth as characters seek a new world, even at the cost of the old one. |
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In Chronicles, Macbeth is portrayed as struggling to support the kingdom in the face of King Duncan's ineptitude. |
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Macbeth and Banquo then together plot the murder of Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging. |
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No other version of the story has Macbeth kill the king in Macbeth's own castle. |
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Macbeth may have been set in medieval Scotland, but it was filled with material of interest to England and England's ruler. |
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Macbeth was first printed in the First Folio of 1623 and the Folio is the only source for the text. |
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Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. |
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Johnson asserted that Macbeth, though esteemed for his military bravery, is wholly reviled. |
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Like Richard III, but without that character's perversely appealing exuberance, Macbeth wades through blood until his inevitable fall. |
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Inversion of normative gender roles is most famously associated with the witches and with Lady Macbeth as she appears in the first act. |
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She suggested, for instance, that the child Lady Macbeth refers to in the first act died during a foolish military action. |
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As with these authors' Macbeth, Hamlet is the novelization of Shakespeare's classic play. |
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Take a little brainwashing, add a few political assassinations and stir in a villainess evil enough to rival Lady Macbeth. |
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But there have been traumas in West's life as a theatre man and the ill fated Peter O'Toole Macbeth was one of the most phrenetic. |
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I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass. |
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Both Forrest and Macready were playing Macbeth in concurrent, competing productions at the time of the riot, a fact which added to the ominous reputation of that play. |
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Fortin was up to the demands of her role as Lady Macbeth, whether in the Act I cabaletta, the banquet's brindisi or the dramatic Act IV sleepwalking scene. |
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As Leddy Macbeth! Her gran' high straicht-nosed face, whiter than ashes! |
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Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event. |
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I joined him in one of our obambulations, to witness the performance of Macbeth, and a particular friend of my friend's friend was to sustain the principal character. |
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This gives the author the chance to subject Macbeth and other police officers to a type of omerta in the small northern Scottish village where the crime took place. |
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Probably the most famous depiction of witchcraft in literature is in Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth featuring the three witches and their cauldron. |
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His own attempt at direction in Stratford, for Richardson's Macbeth in 1952, was much less successful, with poor notices for the star and worse ones for the director. |
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Throughout 1941 and 1942 Gielgud worked continually, in Barrie's Dear Brutus, another Importance of Being Earnest in the West End, and Macbeth on tour. |
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In a survey of theatre critics conducted shortly after Leigh's death, several named her performance as Lady Macbeth as one of her greatest achievements in theatre. |
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Leigh's Lady Macbeth received mixed but generally polite notices, although to the end of his life Olivier believed it to have been the best Lady Macbeth he ever saw. |
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Besides the general echoic effect by which it links words, alliterative consonance in Macbeth seems to create important links in meaning, symbolism, and imagery. |
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Francesco Zuccarelli's 1760 rendition of Macbeth and the Witches. |
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John Wootton's 1750 Macbeth and Banquo meeting the Weird Sisters. |
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This approach is taken in the 1978 Thames TV production, Jack Gold's 1983 version for BBC Television Shakespeare, and in Penny Woolcock's 1997 Macbeth on the Estate. |
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A small cast worked within a simple circle, and McKellen's Macbeth had nothing noble or likeable about him, being a manipulator in a world of manipulative characters. |
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Amidst the clamour of Bolivian virgins, tortured Japanese eroticists and Macbeth acted by naked Eskimos, you will hear the shrill of moral indignation. |
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While the witches do not tell Macbeth directly to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king. |
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While working on Russian translations of Shakespeare's works, Boris Pasternak compared Macbeth to Raskolnikov, the protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. |
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Macbeth has been compared to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. |
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Macbeth realises too late that he has misinterpreted the witches' words. |
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This time, Lady Macbeth tells the lords to leave, and they do so. |
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When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband's objections by challenging his manhood and successfully persuades him to kill the king that very night. |
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When Banquo asks of his own fortunes, the witches respond paradoxically, saying that he will be less than Macbeth, yet happier, less successful, yet more. |
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He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. |
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In a series of battles between 1057 and 1058, Duncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and Macbeth's stepson and heir Lulach, and claimed the throne. |
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For Barma, the close-up is an essential device to turn Macbeth into an intimist piece, but also to enhance realism and break away from the stage experience. |
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These tales also figure in Raphael Holinshed's The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which also appears in Shakespeare's sources for Macbeth. |
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After reaching adulthood, he overthrows Macbeth with English allies. |
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When eventually Macbeth is killed, Malcolm takes over as king. |
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Macbeth then enters and they congratulate him on his victory. |
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William Shakespeare, whose works include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, remains one of the most championed authors in English literature. |
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The sergeant tells them how the battle was won thanks to Macbeth. |
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Suddenly, Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand. |
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The arts are overrated, but the real estate is bubbling like the witch's cauldron in MacBeth. |
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Some of the more popular tartans were the Stewart, McDonald, McGregor, McDuff, MacBeth, and Prince Charlie. |
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The Shakespearean character, Banquo, was Thane of Lochaber and a kinsman of his nemesis, MacBeth. |
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