query: who is macbeth fighting in the beginning of the play

pos: Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland; Macduff; and

pos: Macbeth the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comics, and other media. The play opens amid thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting will be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals Macbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquo have just defeated the allied forces of Norway and Ireland, who were led by the traitorous Macdonwald, and the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth, the King's kinsman, is praised for his bravery and fighting prowess. In

pos: Banquo be a survival from the posited earlier play, in which Macbeth was the legitimate successor to Duncan. Banquo is in a third of the play's scenes, as both a human and a ghost. As significant as he is to the plot, he has fewer lines than the relatively insignificant Ross, a Scottish nobleman who survives the play. In the second scene of the play, King Duncan describes the manner in which Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, bravely led his army against invaders, fighting side by side. In the next scene, Banquo and Macbeth, returning from the

pos: Macbeth (2015 film) performance, as well as those of the rest of the cast, the visual style, the script, the direction and the war sequences. Despite the positive critical reaction, the film was a commercial failure, grossing $16 million worldwide against its production budget of $20 million. The film starts with the funeral of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's child, with both parents grieving for their loss (a scene not in the original play). Macbeth, who supports King Duncan in the civil war, is leading royal troops into a final battle. Macbeth emerges victorious, but there are heavy losses, including many boy soldiers. The

pos: Thane of Cawdor to the 2nd Earl, the first thane was originally a Celtic chieftain who allied with Anglo-Saxon King of Scotland at a time lost to the historical record. Thane of Cawdor The title Thane of Cawdor is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The current 7th Earl of Cawdor, of Clan Campbell of Cawdor, is the 26th Thane of Cawdor. In William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", this title was given to Macbeth after the previous Thane of Cawdor was captured and executed for treason against King Duncan. The historical King Macbeth fought a Thane of Cawdor who died in battle, but

pos: Thane of Cawdor Thane of Cawdor The title Thane of Cawdor is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The current 7th Earl of Cawdor, of Clan Campbell of Cawdor, is the 26th Thane of Cawdor. In William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", this title was given to Macbeth after the previous Thane of Cawdor was captured and executed for treason against King Duncan. The historical King Macbeth fought a Thane of Cawdor who died in battle, but he did not thereby acquire the title himself. The 2nd Earl of Cawdor wrote a history of the Thanes of Cawdor, in 1742, published in 1859. According

pos: King Duncan completely deceived in the intents of Macbeth and therefore may come across as naive. Although a modern reader may view Duncan as an incompetent monarch in this respect, Duncan represents moral order within the play and his murder signals the onset of chaos. King Duncan of Scotland (c. 1001–1040) is the ruler of Scotland who Macbeth murders for his throne. Shakespeare's Duncan is an elderly man, a respected and noble figure; as Macbeth reflects, he 'Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that his virtues / Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd' (1.7.17–19).

pos: Macbeth modern warfare, carried on the shoulders of triumphant troops. In contrast to Nunn, Doran presented a world in which king Duncan and his soldiers were ultimately benign and honest, heightening the deviance of Macbeth (who seems genuinely surprised by the witches' prophesies) and Lady Macbeth in plotting to kill the king. The play said little about politics, instead powerfully presenting its central characters' psychological collapse. In Soviet-controlled Prague in 1977, faced with the illegality of working in theatres, Pavel Kohout adapted "Macbeth" into a 75-minute abridgement for five actors, suitable for "bringing a show in a suitcase to people's homes".

pos: Lady Macbeth and the Weird Sisters from the play "use the metaphoric powers of language to call upon spiritual powers who in turn will influence physical events — in one case the workings of the state, in the other the workings of a woman's body." Like the witches, Lady Macbeth strives to make herself an instrument for bringing about the future She proves herself a defiant, empowered nonconformist, and an explicit threat to a patriarchal system of governance in that, through challenging his masculinity, she manipulates Macbeth into murdering King Duncan. Despite the fact that she calls him a coward, Macbeth remains

pos: Macbeth (1948 film) Michael. Welles later explained that the character's presence was meant to confirm that "the main point of that production is the struggle between the old and new religions. I saw the witches as representatives of a Druidical pagan religion suppressed by Christianity – itself a new arrival." There is a subtle insinuation that Lady Macbeth fatally stabs Duncan prior to Macbeth's attack on the king, and Macbeth is witness to Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and madness scene; in the play, he is not present. Other changes were made to make the play more cinematic. Nearly all of King Duncan's scenes at

pos: Macbeth Bryant Jr., Macbeth also makes use of Biblical parallels, notably between King Duncan's murder and the murder of Christ: While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and others in the theatre industry often consider it bad luck to mention "Macbeth" by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as "The Scottish Play", or "MacBee", or when referring to the character and not the play, "Mr. and Mrs. M", or "The Scottish King". This is because Shakespeare (or the play's revisers) are said to have used the

pos: Cawdor Castle story portrayed by Shakespeare takes extensive liberties with history. In the play, Shakespeare has three witches foretell that Macbeth, then Thane of Glamis, would become Thane of Cawdor and King thereafter. Duncan almost immediately makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, after which Macbeth and his Lady plot the murder of Duncan in order to fulfil the prophecy. Duncan is killed in his sleep, at Macbeth's castle in Inverness, an act that leads to Macbeth's ultimate downfall. The historical King Macbeth ruled Scotland from 1040 to 1057, after his forces killed King Duncan I in battle near Elgin. Macbeth was never Thane

neg: Macbeth (1948 film) the beginning of the play have been cut as well as the character of Donalbain, his second son. Macbeth is seen dictating his letter to his wife, rather than writing it himself. In the play, no such dictation scene exists. The Thane of Cawdor's execution takes place on-screen accompanied by insistent drumbeats. Lady Macbeth's suicide and the final battle between Macbeth's forces and Macduff's army are depicted on-screen; in the play, both scenes occur off-stage. Rather than fatally stabbing Macbeth and then beheading the dead body, Macduff kills Macbeth by slashing off his head. Needless to say, lines have been

neg: Macbeth in popular culture "more authentic than any modern "Macbeth"" in presenting a world in which a man's fighting ability is central to his identity. 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". Dev Virahsawmy's "Zeneral Macbeff", first performed in 1982, adapted the story to the local Creole and to the Mauritian political situation. (The same author later translated "Macbeth" itself into Mauritian creole, as "Trazedji Makbess".) And in 2000, Chuck Mike and the Nigerian Performance Studio Workshop produced "Mukbutu" as a direct commentary on the

neg: Macduff (Macbeth) Macduff (Macbeth) Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (c.1603–1607). Macduff plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act. He can be seen as the avenging hero who helps save Scotland from Macbeth's tyranny in the play. The character is first known from "Chronica Gentis Scotorum" (late 14th century) and "Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland" (early 15th century). Shakespeare drew mostly from "Holinshed's Chronicles" (1587). Although characterised sporadically throughout the play, Macduff serves as a foil to Macbeth and a figure of morality.

neg: Just Macbeth! Just Macbeth! Just Macbeth is an alternate version of William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". It was written by Australian children’s author Andy Griffiths and produced by Bell Shakespeare as well as being released as a book. Andy - Patrick Brammall Danny - Justin Smith Lisa - Pippa Grandison "For the basic plotline, see Macbeth." Andy, Lisa and Danny are practicing a scene from "Macbeth". They make a potion with all three of them then drinking the potion, which sends them into the "Macbeth" play. After a battle Andy and Danny walk and find three witches, who tell them that Macbeth is

neg: Macbeth the reconstruction of Elizabethan pronunciation: for example Bernard Miles' 1951 "Macbeth", for which linguists from University College London were employed to create a transcript of the play in Elizabethan English, then an audio recording of that transcription, from which the actors, in turn, learned their lines. The pronunciation of many words evolves over time. In Shakespeare's day, for example, "heath" was pronounced as "heth" ("or a slightly elongated 'e' as in the modern 'get'"), so it rhymed with "Macbeth" in the sentences by the Witches at the beginning of the play: Second Witch: Upon the heath.Third Witch: There to meet

neg: Pan Asian Repertory Theatre the first professional theatrical production of "The Missing Woman", written and directed by Nguyen thi Minh Ngoc. The play was performed in Vietnamese and English, and enabled diverse audiences to explore themes of social justice and human rights through the lens of traditional Vietnamese art forms. "The Missing Woman" represented Pan Asian's efforts towards international artistic collaboration. "Shogun Macbeth" opened the 2008 season. Adapted by John R. Briggs from Shakespeare's Macbeth, the epic production combined medieval history with traditional Japanese techniques of Noh, Kyogen, and Samurai sword fighting, while retaining the complexity of Shakespearean language. Ernest Abuba, who had acted

neg: Macbeth (opera) old age even if he wins this battle, nor kind words on a royal tomb, only curses and hatred. He receives the news of the Queen's death with indifference. Rallying his troops he learns that Birnam Wood has indeed come to his castle. Battle is joined. Macduff pursues and fights Macbeth who falls wounded. He tells Macbeth that he was not "born of woman" but "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb. Macbeth responds in anguish ("Cielo!" / "Heaven") and the two continue fighting, then disappear from view. Macduff returns indicating to his men that he has killed Macbeth. He then

neg: Macduff (Macbeth) accepts the burden of his decision to leave his family for political exploration, Macduff's actions can be justified. On screen Macduff has been portrayed by, Macduff (Macbeth) Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (c.1603–1607). Macduff plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act. He can be seen as the avenging hero who helps save Scotland from Macbeth's tyranny in the play. The character is first known from "Chronica Gentis Scotorum" (late 14th century) and "Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland" (early 15th century).

neg: Macbeth (1965 film) Macbeth (1965 film) Macbeth is a 1965 Australian TV production of the play by William Shakespeare. The play had previously been filmed by the ABC in 1960 with Keith Goodlet in the title role. The production was directed by Alan Burke who said, "I always approach Shakespeare with reverence, but not with awe. Someone once said, 'A producer should read every new play as if it were Shakespeare, and Shakespeare as if it were a new play.' I heartily agree with this... The main value of the play is inside the minds of its characters. TV, with its revealing close-ups,

neg: Lady Macbeth effect Lady Macbeth effect The supposed Lady Macbeth effect or "Macbeth" effect is a priming effect said to occur when response to a cleaning cue is increased after having been induced by a feeling of shame. The effect is named after the Lady Macbeth character in the Shakespeare play "Macbeth"; she imagined bloodstains on her hands after committing murder. In one experiment, different groups of participants were asked to recall a good or bad past deed, after which they were asked to fill in the letters of three incomplete words: "W_ _H", "SH_ _ER" and "S_ _P". Those who had been

neg: Duncan I of Scotland probably on 14 August 1040. He is thought to have been buried at Elgin before later relocation to the Isle of Iona. Duncan is depicted as an elderly King in the play "Macbeth" (1606) by William Shakespeare. He is killed in his sleep by the protagonist, Macbeth. In the historical novel "Macbeth the King" (1978) by Nigel Tranter, Duncan is portrayed as a schemer who is fearful of Macbeth as a possible rival for the throne. He tries to assassinate Macbeth by poisoning and then when this fails, attacks his home with an army. In self-defence Macbeth meets him in

neg: Donald III of Scotland Macbeth, yet another grandson of King Malcolm II, who usurped his place as king. Following his father's death, Donald went into hiding in Ireland for 17 years, for fear that he would be killed by Macbeth. His elder brother, Malcolm, went to England. It was during this time that Malcolm's grandfather, Crinan of Dunkeld, who was married to Malcolm II's daughter, was killed fighting Macbeth. When Malcolm grew to manhood, he overthrew Macbeth and became the new king. Donald was 25 years old at that time. Donald's activities during the reign of his elder brother Malcolm III (Máel Coluim mac

neg: Macbeth in popular culture detective novel Light Thickens, the play takes centre stage as the rehearsal, production and run of a 'flawless' production is described in absorbing detail (so much so that her biographer describes the novel as effectively Marsh's third production of the play). But the play was also used as the basis of James Thurber's parody of the whodunit genre "The Macbeth Murder Mystery", in which the protagonist reads "Macbeth" applying the conventions of detective stories, and concludes that it must have been Macduff who murdered Duncan. Comics and graphic novels have utilised the play, or have dramatised the circumstances of its

neg: Macbeth (Jo Nesbø novel) Macbeth (Jo Nesbø novel) Macbeth is a re-telling by Jo Nesbø of the original play, "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience. This is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. "Macbeth" was released in April 2018. The book tells the story of Macbeth in a dystopian, imaginary Fife during the 1970s. The book opens at a dockside in Fife, a town ostensibly ruled by Mayor Tourtell, but actually run by whoever is the Chief Commissioner of the police, Duncan, who has recently replaced the despotic Kenneth. A shipment of illegal narcotics to the Norse Riders,one of the two

neg: Lady Macduff Lady Macbeth has control over her husband's action at the beginning while Lady Macduff did not have control as Macduff just left Lady Macduff without her consultation. Later playwrights have found the parallels between Ladies Macduff and Macbeth fascinating and expanded Lady Macduff’s role in the play to directly contrast with Lady Macbeth and her actions. Sir William Davenant inaugurated this strategy in his adaptation of 1674, as part of his larger effort to educate the English populace on the proper discipline of human emotions. Davenant greatly expanded Lady Macduff’s role, having her appear in four new scenes: “the first

neg: Dunsinane (play) Dunsinane (play) Dunsinane is a 2010 play by David Greig. It premiered in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Hampstead Theatre from 10 February to 6 March 2010, directed by RSC Associate Director Roxana Silbert and with leads including Siobhan Redmond and Jonny Phillips. Its narrative is formed by the events following the defeat of Macbeth by Malcolm and an English army in the Battle of Dunsinane at the end of William Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth". In Greig’s version, Lady Macbeth is known as Gruach. Having outlived her second husband Macbeth, after she had Macbeth kill her first husband, Gruach

neg: Malcolm (Macbeth) the play as a speech contrasting himself and the former tyrant. During his final speech, he grants earldoms to Macduff and others, while reclaiming his birthright. The ending of "Macbeth" is often viewed as anticlimactic or at least failing to meet expectations, because Macbeth is killed by Macduff, rather than Malcolm or Fleance, who are perceived to have greater reasons to seek vengeance. Malcolm (Macbeth) Malcolm is a character in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (c. 1603–1607). The character is based on the historical king Malcolm III of Scotland, and is derived largely from the account in "Holinshed's Chronicles" (1587), a history

neg: Macbeth (1916 film) "Hollywood" television series, Kevin Brownlow states that Sir Herbert Tree failed to understand that the production was a silent film and that speech was not needed so much as pantomime. Tree, who had performed the play numerous times on the stage, kept spouting reams of dialogue. So Emerson and Fleming simply removed the film and cranked an empty camera so as not to waste film when he did so. Macbeth (1916 film) Macbeth is a silent, black-and-white 1916 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth".. It was directed by John Emerson, assisted by Erich von Stroheim, and produced by

neg: Macbeth 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ... that ever I saw"), again on 16 October 1667 ("was vexed to see Young, who is but a bad actor at best, act Macbeth in the room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick"), and again three weeks later on 6 November 1667 ("[at] "Macbeth", which we still like mightily"), yet again on 12 August 1668 ("saw "Macbeth", to our great content"), and finally on 21 December 1668, on

neg: Light Thickens Light Thickens Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982. The plot concerns the murder of the lead actor in a production of "Macbeth" in London, and the novel takes its title from a line in the play. A number of characters in the book appeared previously in Marsh's novel "Death at the Dolphin". The novel is dedicated to the actors James Laurenson and Helen Thomas who had played Macbeth and Lady Macbeth respectively in the author's 1962 production of the play,

neg: The Scottish Play "Macbeth", being a popular play, was commonly put on by theatres in financial trouble, or that the high production costs of "Macbeth" put theatres in financial trouble, and hence an association was made between a production of "Macbeth" and theatres going out of business. According to the superstition, Shakespeare got a few of the lines from an actual coven of witches, and when they saw the play they were greatly offended and cursed the play. Another tradition tells that the original propmaster could not find a suitable pot for a cauldron and stole one from a coven, who then cursed

neg: King Duncan Duncan's generous and trusting nature contrasts strikingly with the evil which surrounds Macbeth. Though he appears only in Act 1, he is an important symbol of the values that are to be defeated and restored in the course of the play. His generosity and fatherly affection for Macbeth make his murder even more appalling. The unconscious irony is sharp when he greets Macbeth, who is already plotting against him, with a declaration of his own ingratitude, in 1.4.14–16. Duncan's faith, misplaced first in the rebellious Cawdor and then in Macbeth, provides the audience with an introduction to the atmosphere of

neg: Third Murderer yon black struggle you could never know me". (The line is actually "Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me"). Paton's theories attracted attention, with Erato Hills of the University of Cambridge calling it "very ingenious", but not supported by the play. Hills interpreted the play as portraying Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and all guests as arriving at the banquet at the same time, rather than Macbeth being late, and the mention of 7 p.m. can be attributed to Shakespeare's lack of attention to detail. Hills also believed the First Murderer was the one who

neg: Characters of Shakespear's Plays the three witches on the "blasted heath", with which Macbeth struggles, wrestling with his destiny, through to the play's tragic climax. Hazlitt is especially interested in the "design" of "Macbeth", in its general mood, its "full poetic 'impression, and in this, according to John Kinnaird, he anticipates the method of the twentieth-century Shakespearean critic G. Wilson Knight. "Shakespear", writes Hazlitt, "lost sight of nothing that could in any way give relief or heightening to his subject [...]." Further noting Shakespeare's crafting of the play, Hazlitt points to fine touches at the beginning that contribute to a unified effect: "The wildness

neg: Macduff's son a child of Macbeth, should he be portrayed as having one—whether his own natural son, or adopted. As Lady Macbeth says "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me". Seeing Macbeth in a fatherly perspective produces a combination of both tender and ambitious fatherliness in him. All that Macbeth does to others' sons in the play, then, is for his own heir. (Lady Macbeth, at least, has had a child, but no actual son of Macbeth is mentioned in the play—the "babe" may have been a girl, or died young, or—more

neg: Macbeth (character) she dies and it is later postulated that she committed suicide. Now completely alone, Macbeth laments that life is a "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." By the end of the play Macbeth learns that the witches' second set of prophecies have hidden meanings: Malcolm's army carries shields made from Birnam wood to Macbeth's fortress in Dunsinane, and Macduff reveals that he was prematurely removed from his mother's womb, meaning that he technically was not "of woman born". Beaten but still defiant, Macbeth declares, "Lay on Macduff, and damned be he who first cries,

neg: Three Witches classical myths of the Fates: the Greek Moirai and the Roman Parcae. Productions of "Macbeth" began incorporating portions of Thomas Middleton's contemporaneous play "The Witch" "circa" 1618, two years after Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare's witches are prophets who hail Macbeth, the general, early in the play, and predict his ascent to kingship. Upon killing the king and gaining the throne of Scotland, Macbeth hears them ambiguously predict his eventual downfall. The witches, and their "filthy" trappings and supernatural activities, set an ominous tone for the play. Artists in the eighteenth century, including Henry Fuseli and William Rimmer, depicted the witches variously,

neg: Banquo remaining silent as the other thanes around him hail Macbeth as king. in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, "Men of Respect", the character of Banquo is named "Bankie Como" and played by American actor Dennis Farina. Banquo Lord Banquo , the Thane of Lochaber, is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play "Macbeth". In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he will

neg: Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth’s reference to her having had a child (which, historically, she did - from a previous marriage, having remarried Macbeth after being widowed.) Written in blank verse, the play was published to critical acclaim. Alex Kingston starred as Lady Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in his and Rob Ashford's adaption of "Macbeth". The play was first performed at the Manchester Festival in 2013 and then transferred to New York for a limited engagement in 2014. Marion Cotillard played the character in Justin Kurzel's 2015 film adaptation opposite Michael Fassbender. Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's

neg: Banquo react with alarm during a public feast. Shakespeare borrowed the character of Banquo from "Holinshed's Chronicles", a history of Britain published by Raphael Holinshed in 1587. In "Chronicles" Banquo is an accomplice to Macbeth in the murder of the king, rather than a loyal subject of the king who is seen as an enemy by Macbeth. Shakespeare may have changed this aspect of his character to please King James, who was thought at the time to be a descendant of the real Banquo. Critics often interpret Banquo's role in the play as being a foil to Macbeth, resisting evil where

neg: Fleance rest of his story, as it is described in Holinshed's "Chronicles", does not appear in Shakespeare's play. Scholars suggest that Shakespeare does not elaborate on Fleance's life after his escape from Scotland to avoid unnecessary distraction from the story of Macbeth himself. In Act 1, Macbeth and Banquo meet the Three Witches who foretell that Macbeth will be king and that Banquo "shalt get kings, though thou be none". Fleance also briefly appears in the first scene of Act 2, when his father tells him of "cursed thoughts that nature / Gives way to in repose!". Macbeth, aware of the

neg: Macbeth and in the play the Weird Sisters often engage in equivocation, for instance telling Macbeth that he could never be overthrown until "Great Birnan wood to high Dunsinane hill/Shall Come". Macbeth interprets the prophecy as meaning never, but in fact, the Three Sisters refer only to branches of the trees of Great Birnan coming to Dunsinane hill. "Macbeth" cannot be dated precisely but is usually taken as contemporaneous to the other canonical tragedies ("Hamlet", "Othello", and "King Lear"). While some scholars have placed the original writing of the play as early as 1599, most believe that the play is unlikely

neg: Brownsea Open Air Theatre 2018]] [[Image:BOAT-_Two_Gentlemen_Of_Verona.jpg|thumb|"Two Gentlemen Of Verona", 2016]] In 2019 BOAT are staging "[[Richard III (play)| "Richard III"]]". Future plans include "[[Romeo and Juliet (play)| "Romeo and Juliet"]]" in 2020, followed by "[[Twelfth Night (play)| "Twelfth Night"]]" and "[[Macbeth (play)| "Macbeth"]]". Former members of Brownsea Open Air Theatre who went on to appear in film, stage and/or television include the following: [[Category:Outdoor theatres]] [[Category:Theatres in Dorset]] [[Category:Poole]] Brownsea Open Air Theatre Brownsea Open Air Theatre (commonly abbreviated B.O.A.T) is an open-air Shakespearian theatre company based in Poole, Dorset that have performed large theatrical productions since 1964. Annually performing a play from the

neg: Macduff (Macbeth) allegiance with him (5.11.20–25). As a supporting character, Macduff serves as a foil to Macbeth; his integrity directly contrasts with Macbeth's moral perversion. In an exchange between the Scottish thane Lennox and another lord, Lennox talks of Macduff’s flight to England and refers to him as "some holy angel" (3.6.46) who "may soon return to this our suffering country / Under a hand accursed" (3.6.48–49). The play positions the characters of Macduff and Macbeth as "holy" versus "evil" The contrast between Macduff and Macbeth is accentuated by their approaches to death. Macduff, hearing of his family’s death, reacts with a

neg: Banquo Banquo Lord Banquo , the Thane of Lochaber, is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play "Macbeth". In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he will not be king himself, but that his descendants will be. Later, Macbeth in his lust for power sees Banquo as a threat and has him murdered by two hired assassins; Banquo's son, Fleance, escapes. Banquo's ghost returns in a later scene, causing Macbeth to

neg: Macbeth (2015 film) Macbeth (2015 film) Macbeth is a 2015 British-French film tragedy based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film was directed by Justin Kurzel from a screenplay adapted by Jacob Koskoff, Todd Louiso, and Michael Lesslie. It stars Michael Fassbender in the title role and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth. The film was theatrically released on 2 October 2015 in the United Kingdom and on 4 December 2015 in the United States. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and received generally positive reviews from film critics who praised Fassbender's

neg: The Scottish Play The Scottish Play The Scottish Play and The Bard's Play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to Shakespeare's popular nickname. According to a theatrical superstition, called the "Scottish curse", speaking the name "Macbeth" inside a theatre will cause disaster. A variation of the superstition also forbids quoting it within a theatre except as part of an actual rehearsal or performance of the play. Because of this superstition, the lead character is most often referred to as the "Scottish King" or "Scottish Lord". Lady Macbeth is often

neg: Voodoo Macbeth Lee and Eric Burroughs. Juano Hernandez was first cast as Macbeth, but he left the production after just three rehearsals to play the lead in an NBC radio series. Jack Carter, who played Crown in the original stage production of "Porgy", was chosen for the role. Rose McClendon was to have portrayed Lady Macbeth, but when she became critically ill Edna Thomas inherited the role. Both Carter and Thomas were light-skinned and wore dark makeup in order to avoid looking different from the rest of the cast. Thomas played Lady Macbeth as a mother figure to Macbeth. Carter was a

neg: Macbeth (opera) Macbeth (opera) Macbeth () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, it was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March 1847. "Macbeth" was the first Shakespeare play that Verdi adapted for the operatic stage. Almost twenty years later, "Macbeth" was revised and expanded in a French version and given in Paris on 19 April 1865. After the success of "Attila" in 1846, by which time the composer

neg: Three Witches Once Macbeth is King and they are married, however, she abandons him, revealing that she was not Lady Duncan all along, but a witch. The real Lady Duncan appears and denounces Macbeth as a traitor. The Spanish poet and playwright León Felipe wrote a version of Shakespeare's play in Spanish which significantly changes the witches' role, especially in the final scene. After Macbeth's death, the Three Witches reappear in the midst of wind and storm, which they have been associated with throughout the play, to claim his corpse. They carry it to a ravine and shout, "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! /

neg: Die Hand Die Verletzt were based on fans of the series who were active on the internet. In fact, the inspiration for Vitaris was a "Cinefantastique" critic and reviewer named Paula Vitaris. Mrs. Paddock's name was based on the toad demon Paddock in the first scene of Shakespeare's play "MacBeth". The episode's title means "The hand that wounds" in German. The title is taken from a part of the prayer that the PTA says near the beginning, which, in its entirety is "Sein ist die Hand die verletzt", meaning "His is the hand that wounds". "Die Hand Die Verletzt" was directed by Kim Manners,

neg: Young Siward Young Siward Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth" (1606). He is the son of Siward, general of the English forces in the battle against Macbeth. Macbeth kills him in the final battle, shortly before his swordfight with Lord Macduff. He is based on the real-life historical figure of Osbeorn Bulax. He first appears in scene 5.2, as the English forces join with the Scottish. Lennox refers to him as one of many “unrough youths” who “protest their first of manhood.” If he is an “unrough” youth, then he is too young to grow a beard and

neg: The Scottish Play been affected by the Macbeth curse; the opera being performed within the film is Verdi's " Macbeth". Ari Aster, writer and director of "Hereditary", said that during filming, "Alex Wolff told me not to say the name of William Shakespeare's Scottish play out loud because of some superstitious theater legend. I smugly announced the name, and then one of our lights burst during the shooting of the following scene." The Scottish Play The Scottish Play and The Bard's Play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to

neg: Sarah Bernhardt Paris, Bernhardt leased the theater of Porte Saint-Martin and starred in a new play by Richepin, "Nana-Sahib", a costume drama about love in British India in 1857. The play and Richepin's acting were poor, and it quickly closed. Richepin then wrote an adaptation of "Macbeth" in French, with Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth, but it was also a failure. The only person who praised the play was Oscar Wilde, who was then living in Paris. He began writing a play, "Salomé," in French, especially for Bernhardt, though it was quickly banned by British censors and she never performed it. Bernhardt then

neg: Macbeth (1948 film) former child star Roddy McDowall as Malcolm. Welles also cast his daughter Christopher in the role of Macduff's son; this was her only film appearance. The cast of "Macbeth" is listed in the "AFI Catalog of Feature Films". In bringing "Macbeth" to the screen, Welles made several changes to Shakespeare's original. He added sequences involving the witches to increase their significance. At the beginning of the film, they create a clay figurine of Macbeth, which is used to symbolize his rise and ruin. It collapses in a heap, seemingly of its own volition, immediately after Macbeth is beheaded. The witches

neg: Macbeth the English Parliament to accept the Protestant son of the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, as their king. Garry Wills provides further evidence that "Macbeth" is a Gunpowder Play (a type of play that emerged immediately following the events of the Gunpowder Plot). He points out that every Gunpowder Play contains "a necromancy scene, regicide attempted or completed, references to equivocation, scenes that test loyalty by use of deceptive language, and a character who sees through plots—along with a vocabulary similar to the Plot in its immediate aftermath (words like "train, blow, vault") and an ironic recoil of the Plot

neg: Danielle Macbeth Danielle Macbeth Danielle Monique Macbeth (born 1954 in Edmonton, Canada) is a philosopher whose work focuses on the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic. She is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1989. Macbeth also taught at the University of Hawaii from 1986-1989. Macbeth received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1977 before beginning her philosophical studies. She then went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies at McGill University

neg: Danielle Macbeth of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and pragmatism. Danielle Macbeth Danielle Monique Macbeth (born 1954 in Edmonton, Canada) is a philosopher whose work focuses on the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic. She is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1989. Macbeth also taught at the University of Hawaii from 1986-1989. Macbeth received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1977 before beginning her philosophical studies. She then went on to receive a

neg: Macbeth-Evans Glass Company holders, cookie jars, or butter dishes were made by Macbeth-Evans. Pattern names were referred to by letter. Ruby red and Ritz blue colors were used in the 1930s glassware, beginning with the American Sweetheart pattern. Some of the patterns Macbeth-Evans created were: Macbeth-Evans Glass Company The Macbeth-Evans Glass Company was an American glass company that created very fine glassware with beautiful designs but is famous for making depression glass. It was located in Charleroi, Pennsylvania and started in 1899. Before 1929, Macbeth-Evans made hand blown glass before the use of machines became popular. This method was adopted by the company

neg: Macbeth, King of Scotland woman is the murderer and the man is the instigator. Leskov's novel was the basis for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1936 opera of the same name. In modern times, Dorothy Dunnett's novel "King Hereafter" aims to portray a historical Macbeth, but proposes that Macbeth and his rival and sometime ally Thorfinn of Orkney are one and the same (Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name). John Cargill Thompson's play "Macbeth Speaks 1997", a reworking of his earlier "Macbeth Speaks", is a monologue delivered by the historical Macbeth, aware of what Shakespeare and posterity have done to him. Scottish author

neg: Voodoo Macbeth the play in 2013. Voodoo Macbeth The Voodoo "Macbeth" is a common nickname for the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Orson Welles adapted and directed the production, moved the play's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely Black cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian "vodou" that fulfilled the role of Scottish witchcraft. A box office sensation, the production is regarded as a landmark theatrical event for several reasons: its innovative interpretation of the play, its success in promoting African-American theatre, and its role in securing

neg: Macbeth villain by nature. They are turned into criminals by faulty rationalizations, by deductions from false premises." He goes on to argue that Lady Macbeth is "feminine ... one of those active, insistent wives" who becomes her husband's "executive, more resolute and consistent than he is himself." According to Pasternak, she is only helping Macbeth carry out his own wishes, to her own detriment. The disastrous consequences of Macbeth's ambition are not limited to him. Almost from the moment of the murder, the play depicts Scotland as a land shaken by inversions of the natural order. Shakespeare may have intended a

neg: Lady Macbeth having her menstrual cycle stop, Lady Macbeth hopes to stop any feelings of sensitivity and caring that is associated with females. She hopes to become like a man to stop any sense of remorse for the regicide. La Belle furthers her argument by connecting the stopping of the menstrual cycle with the persistent infanticide motifs in the play. La Belle gives examples of "the strangled babe" whose finger is thrown into the witches’ cauldron (4.1.30); Macduff’s babes who are "savagely slaughter’d" (4.3.235); and the suckling babe with boneless gums whose brains Lady Macbeth would dash out (1.7.57–58) to argue that

neg: Just Macbeth! he fights the gnomes. MacDuff then fights Macbeth. MacDuff tells Andy that he was not born of a woman because "from his mother's womb he was untimely ripped" right before cutting Andy's head off. It is then revealed that the entire play was Andy, Danny and Lisa’s version of "Macbeth". "Just Macbeth!" was released as a book in June 2009. It contains pictures by Terry Denton, like it happens with the other books of the series. Several things were changed from the play, for example: the King sings a generic song, and "Happy Tree Friends" is changed to "Axe Wielding,

neg: Men of Respect Men of Respect Men of Respect is a 1990 crime drama film, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". It stars John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a Mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his boss. The film also stars Rod Steiger, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina and Peter Boyle and is directed by William C. Reilly. It is not the first attempt to transplant "MacBeth" to the American mob culture; it was done in the 1955 film "Joe MacBeth". Mike Battaglia, a powerful lieutenant in the D’Amico crime family, executes a large-scale hit on the family's

neg: Sian Thomas that "Madonna is not positively bad: just technically awkward. But, fortunately, she is buttressed by strong supporting players. Sian Thomas, who can get a laugh simply through the flick of an eyelid, is superb as a Courtauld-trained consultant longing to get her revenge on the corporate world." In 2004, Thomas played the leading role of Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Macbeth" at Stratford-on-Avon. Billington wrote that "Sian Thomas was also born to play Lady Macbeth. She has the right mixture of attack, sexiness and emotional drive", adding that she gave Shakespeare's sometimes complex lines exactly the

neg: Macbeth (2006 film) and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech is heard. Nominations: "Macbeth" grossed $232,994 at the box office in Australia. Macbeth (2006 film) Macbeth is a 2006 Australian adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast led by Sam Worthington in the title role. "Macbeth", filmed in Melbourne and Victoria, was released in Australia on 21 September 2006. Wright and Hill wrote the script, which—although it uses a modern-day Melbourne gangster setting—largely maintains the language of the original play. "Macbeth" was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006. In a

neg: Lady Macbeth couple of hot embraces, is not developed adequately. The passion and torment of the conflict between these two which resides in the play has been rather seriously neglected in this truncated rendering." Michael Costello of "Allmovie" has described her performance as "uneven" and has also stated, "Her unique Lady Macbeth is either an exhibition of rank scenery-chewing or a performance of intriguingly Kabuki-like stylization." In 2009, Pegasus Books published "The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II", a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman, which endeavoured to offer a sequel to Macbeth and to resolve its many loose ends, particularly

neg: Macbeth order. Critics in the early twentieth century reacted against what they saw as an excessive dependence on the study of character in criticism of the play. This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads. She suggested, for instance, that the child Lady Macbeth refers to in the first act died during a foolish military action. In the play, the Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and

neg: Macbeth (Jo Nesbø novel) tells Macbeth that he was not born of woman, but was cut from his mother's belly when she was murdered. Macbeth goads Duff into killing him, so that he can be reunited with Lady. The book ends with peace having been restored to Fife, but with the brother of one of the drugs gang members threatening to destroy that peace. Macbeth (Jo Nesbø novel) Macbeth is a re-telling by Jo Nesbø of the original play, "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience. This is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. "Macbeth" was released in April 2018. The book

neg: Macbeth as possible on the spot, sometimes accompanied by spitting over their shoulder, and uttering an obscenity. Another popular "ritual" is to leave the room, knock three times, be invited in, and then quote a line from "Hamlet". Yet another is to recite lines from "The Merchant of Venice", thought to be a lucky play. The only eyewitness account of "Macbeth" in Shakespeare's lifetime was recorded by Simon Forman, who saw a performance at the Globe on 20 April 1610. Scholars have noted discrepancies between Forman's account and the play as it appears in the Folio. For example, he makes no

neg: Macbeth him remained untouched by what he had done, the play moulding him into a man of sensibility, rather than him descending into a tyrant. John Philip Kemble first played Macbeth in 1778. Although usually regarded as the antithesis of Garrick, Kemble nevertheless refined aspects of Garrick's portrayal into his own. However it was the "towering and majestic" Sarah Siddons (Kemble's sister) who became a legend in the role of Lady Macbeth. In contrast to Hannah Pritchard's savage, demonic portrayal, Siddons' Lady Macbeth, while terrifying, was nevertheless – in the scenes in which she expresses her regret and remorse – tenderly

neg: Lady Macbeth effect using larger samples. Replication difficulties have emerged for three out of four of Zhong and Liljenquist's original studies (i.e., Study 2, Study 3, and Study 4). Lady Macbeth effect The supposed Lady Macbeth effect or "Macbeth" effect is a priming effect said to occur when response to a cleaning cue is increased after having been induced by a feeling of shame. The effect is named after the Lady Macbeth character in the Shakespeare play "Macbeth"; she imagined bloodstains on her hands after committing murder. In one experiment, different groups of participants were asked to recall a good or bad past

neg: Macbeth (1965 film) is the ideal medium with which to demonstrate this." It was set the action in the year the play was written, around 1600, rather than when Shakespeare originally set it, around 1100. This meant the characters wore traditional tartans. The final battle was shot in Mount Macedon but the bulk of filming was done at the ABC studios in Ripponlea, Melbourne. Macbeth (1965 film) Macbeth is a 1965 Australian TV production of the play by William Shakespeare. The play had previously been filmed by the ABC in 1960 with Keith Goodlet in the title role. The production was directed by

neg: Macbeth (opera) the traditional elements are better handled than in "Attila" or "Alzira" [and] the arias grow organically from the implications of their own material, rather than from the deliberate elaboration of a formula." Notes Sources Macbeth (opera) Macbeth () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, it was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March 1847. "Macbeth" was the first Shakespeare play that Verdi adapted for the operatic

neg: Macbeth spells of real witches in his text, purportedly angering the witches and causing them to curse the play. Thus, to say the name of the play inside a theatre is believed to doom the production to failure, and perhaps cause physical injury or death to cast members. There are stories of accidents, misfortunes and even deaths taking place during runs of "Macbeth". According to the actor Sir Donald Sinden, in his Sky Arts TV series "Great West End Theatres", contrary to popular myth, Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth is not the unluckiest play as superstition likes to portray it. Exactly the opposite!

neg: Fleance a light for Scotland in the midst of the play's black deeds. When Macbeth returns to the witches later in the play, they show him an apparition of the murdered Banquo, along with eight kings of his family, descending through Fleance. King James, on the throne when "Macbeth" was written, was the ninth Stuart king. This scene thus suggests strong support for James' right to the throne by lineage, and for audiences of Shakespeare's day, was a tangible fulfilment of the witches' prophecy. The apparition is also deeply unsettling to Macbeth, who not only wants the throne for himself, but

neg: Theatrical superstitions Theatrical superstitions Theatrical superstitions are superstitions particular to actors or the theatre. William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name when in the theatre (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead). Actors also avoid even quoting the lines from "Macbeth" before performances, particularly the Witches' incantations. Outside a theatre and after a performance, the play can be spoken of openly. If an actor speaks the name "Macbeth" in a theatre prior to one of the performances, they are required to perform a ritual to remove the curse. The ritual may vary according

neg: Macbeth new era, and his version would dominate on stage for around eighty years. Among the changes he made were the expansion of the role of the witches, introducing new songs, dances and 'flying', and the expansion of the role of Lady Macduff as a foil to Lady Macbeth. There were, however, performances outside the patent companies: among the evasions of the Duke's Company's monopoly was a puppet version of "Macbeth". "Macbeth" was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on

neg: Voodoo Macbeth (April 14–June 20, 1936). The production then moved to the Adelphi Theatre (July 6–18). On July 15, Jack Carter completed only the first act, and the performance was completed by understudy Thomas Anderson. Beginning July 16 Maurice Ellis played the role of Macbeth, with Charles Collins succeeding Ellis in the role of Macduff. The production then toured WPA venues throughout the country, beginning with engagements in Bridgeport (July 21–25) and Hartford, Connecticut (July 28–August 1). "Macbeth" was performed in Dallas beginning August 6, and the production was featured at the Texas Centennial Exposition August 13–23. Performances were presented in the

neg: Macbeth in popular culture was inherited by Garrick, which in turn influenced Giuseppe Verdi to incorporate a ballet around the witches' cauldron into his opera "Macbeth". Verdi's first Shakespeare-influenced opera, with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, incorporated a number of striking arias for Lady Macbeth, giving her a prominence in the early part of the play which contrasts with the character's increasing isolation as the action continues: she ceases to sing duets and her sleepwalking confession is starkly contrasted with the "supported grief" of Macduff in the preceding scene. Other music influenced by the play includes Richard Strauss's 1890 symphonic poem "Macbeth". Duke Ellington

neg: Theatre technique and "Macbeth" and other re-interpretations of Shakespeare's works, as well as Tom Stoppard’s approaches in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", "Dogg's Hamlet", and "Cahoot's Macbeth". The director these days is responsible for the actual production of a play, as opposed to earlier days when it was the producer who, at least in Britain until the 1950s, had this task. In earlier centuries it was the author, an actor-manager, or a leading actor with whom the responsibilities of staging a drama were invested. The director produces the play in the way he envisages how it ought to be seen as he

neg: Macbeth (opera) faded from public view until the mid-20th century revivals. Influenced by his friendship in the 1840s with Andrea Maffei, a poet and man of letters who had suggested both Schiller's "Die Räuber" ("The Robbers") and Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" as suitable subjects for operas, Giuseppe Verdi received a commission from Florence's Teatro della Pergola, but no particular opera was specified. He only started working on "Macbeth" in September 1846, the driving reason for that choice being the availability of a particular singer, the baritone Felice Varesi who would sing the title role. With Varesi under contract, Verdi could focus on the

neg: Macbeth in popular culture inception: Superman himself wrote the play for Shakespeare in the course of one night, in the 1947 "Shakespeare's Ghost Writer". A cyberpunk version of MacBeth titled "Mac" appears in the collection "Sound & Fury: Shakespeare Goes Punk. Macbeth has been adapted into plays dealing with the political and cultural concerns of many nations. Eugène Ionesco's "Macbett" satirised "Macbeth" as a meaningless succession of treachery and slaughter. Wale Ogunyemi's "A'are Akogun", first performed in Nigeria in 1968, mixed the English and Yoruba languages. Welcome Msomi's 1970 play "Umabatha" adapts "Macbeth" to Zulu culture, and was said by "The Independent" to be

neg: Macbeth in popular culture spin-offs from "Macbeth". Russian Novelist Nikolay Leskov told a variation of the story from Lady Macbeth's point of view in "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", which itself became a number of films and an opera by Shostakovich. Maurice Baring's 1911 "The Rehearsal" fictionalises Shakespeare's company's inept rehearsals for "Macbeth's" premiere. Gu Wuwei's 1916 play "The Usurper of State Power" adapted both "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" as a parody of contemporary events in China. The play has been used as a background for detective fiction (as in Marvin Kaye's 1976 "Bullets for Macbeth") and, in the case of Ngaio Marsh's last

neg: Macbeth upon the Plotters (who fall into the pit they dug)." The play utilizes a few key words that the audience at the time would recognize as allusions to the Plot. In one sermon in 1605, Lancelot Andrewes stated, regarding the failure of the Plotters on God's day, "Be they fair or foul, glad or sad (as the poet calleth Him) the great Diespiter, 'the Father of days' hath made them both." Shakespeare begins the play by using the words "fair" and "foul" in the first speeches of the witches and Macbeth. In the words of Jonathan Gil Harris, the play

neg: Fleance also desires to father a line of kings. Theater expert Marvin Rosenberg theorises that Macbeth has a son, and interprets the play as commenting on the rivalries between pairs of father and son: Banquo and Fleance, Macduff and his son, Macbeth and his. He argues that the tension that exists between Fleance and Macbeth is made stronger if Macbeth has a child: his motive is not just selfish striving, but also fatherly ambition for his own son. But this interpretation is flawed because in IV:iii, as soon as Macduff hears that MacBeth has murdered his whole family, he says: "He

neg: MacBird! MacBird! MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson. The play superimposes the John F. Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". In the play, Kennedy becomes "John Ken O'Dunc", Lyndon Johnson becomes "MacBird", Lady Bird Johnson becomes "Lady MacBird", etc. As Macbeth assassinates Duncan, so MacBird assassinates Ken O'Dunc. As Macbeth is defeated by Macduff, so MacBird is defeated by Robert Ken O'Dunc (Robert Kennedy). The plot is also influenced by the Three Witches, representing Students, Blacks, and Leftists. In a 2006 "Washington Post" interview, Garson said she was not seriously accusing Johnson of being complicit in the

neg: Richard Standing tour, alongside wife Sara Poyzer who is playing Sam's love interest, Donna. Standing is currently playing MacBeth in the play MacBeth in York. Richard Standing Richard Standing is a British actor born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1967 who has appeared on the TV series "Holby City", "Coronation Street", and "The Grand". He played the part of Danny Hargreaves in Coronation Street from 1999-2001. He also was in "Doctors". He studied drama at Hull University and has performed extensively with the theatre company Northern Broadsides. In 2000 he appeared in Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes as Gary Barlow.

neg: Macbeth (2006 film) Macbeth (2006 film) Macbeth is a 2006 Australian adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast led by Sam Worthington in the title role. "Macbeth", filmed in Melbourne and Victoria, was released in Australia on 21 September 2006. Wright and Hill wrote the script, which—although it uses a modern-day Melbourne gangster setting—largely maintains the language of the original play. "Macbeth" was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006. In a cemetery the Weird Sisters, three school girl witches, are destroying and defacing headstones and statues, while close

neg: Lisa Klein as the main character. Although a child of the two legendary fictional Shakespeare characters is never directly seen or heard from in the original works of William Shakespeare, Klein contends that Lady Macbeth implies she has had a child when she speaks to Macbeth about nursing in Shakespeare's original play "Macbeth", and therefore it is possible that Lady Macbeth did indeed have a daughter (or a son). Although possible that Lady Macbeth was implying she had had a male child whom she had nursed, Klein decided that the child should be female as to bring about a dominant female character

neg: Lady Macbeth profound torment. She dies off-stage, with suicide being suggested as its cause, when Malcolm declares that she died by "self and violent hands." In the First Folio, the only source for the play, she is never referred to as Lady Macbeth, but variously as "Macbeth's wife", "Macbeth's lady", or just "lady". The sleepwalking scene is one of the more celebrated scenes from "Macbeth," and, indeed, in all of Shakespeare. It has no counterpart in "Holinshed's Chronicles," Shakespeare's source material for the play, but is solely the bard's invention. A.C. Bradley notes that, with the exception of the scene's few closing

neg: Partap Sharma loud and clear. Partap's is among the most marvellous voices in not just India but the world. This recording of one man speaking in so many accents will be a staple for young students." – The Times of India. "It comes as no surprise that the man with the golden voice needs no advertising or publicity for his work. Sharma, the man they call simply 'the voice' has voiced all the characters in the play, from the three witches to Macbeth himself – an aural treat. The series is also testimony to the writer-documentary filmmaker-actor's fighting spirit as he battles

neg: Rory Kinnear Kinnear's debut play "The Herd", directed by Howard Davies. The play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015. In October 2017 he appeared in the title role of "Young Marx", the premiere production at the Bridge Theatre. He returned to the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre to star as the title role in "Macbeth" opposite Anne-Marie Duff from February 2018. For "The Threepenny Opera" (a "play with songs") at the Olivier Theatre from May to October 2016, Kinnear found his "dormant" singing voice for the role of Macheath. In February 2017 he made his directing

neg: Joe MacBeth Joe MacBeth Joe MacBeth is a 1955 British–American crime drama, directed by Ken Hughes and starring Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman and Bonar Colleano. It is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", set in a 1930s American criminal underworld. The film's plot closely follows that of Shakespeare's original play. A similar adaptation, "Men of Respect", was released in 1990, starring John Turturro, Rod Steiger and Dennis Farina. Hit man Joe MacBeth goes directly from the assassination of crime boss Duke's second-in-command Tommy to his own wedding, where bride Lily scolds him for being two hours late. Duke rewards him with a

neg: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo uyezda") is an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov. It was originally published in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's magazine "Epoch". Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's "Madame Bovary") and the planning of murder by a woman, hence the title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play "Macbeth". The title also echoes the title of Turgenev's story "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District" (1859). The Ismailov family is introduced:

neg: Macbeth (1916 film) Macbeth (1916 film) Macbeth is a silent, black-and-white 1916 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth".. It was directed by John Emerson, assisted by Erich von Stroheim, and produced by D. W. Griffith, with cinematography by Victor Fleming. The film starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Constance Collier, both famous from the stage and for playing Shakespearean parts. Although released during the first decade of feature filmmaking, it was already the seventh version of "Macbeth" to be produced, one of eight during the silent film era. It is considered to be a lost film. In the companion book to his

neg: Young Siward son has become "God’s soldier" because of his battle against evil. Although he falls in battle, Young Siward is praised for his bravery, and in falling at the hand of Macbeth he has finally achieved manhood (this is indicated when Ross informs Siward that his son "only liv'd but till he was a man"). Young Siward Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth" (1606). He is the son of Siward, general of the English forces in the battle against Macbeth. Macbeth kills him in the final battle, shortly before his swordfight with Lord Macduff. He is based

neg: Ran (film) by "Kagemusha" in the early 1980s before securing financial backing to film "Ran". "Ran" was Kurosawa's second encounter with Shakespeare during his filmmaking career. In 1957, Kurosawa had directed based on Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. "Throne of Blood" tells the story of a warrior, like Macbeth, who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Despite the changes in setting and language, both "Ran" and "Throne of Blood" are considered to be among the best film adaptations