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Macbeth (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [1] 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, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March ...
Operas based on Romeo and Juliet (7 P) T. Operas based on The Taming of the Shrew (6 P) ... Macbeth (Verdi) La morte di Cesare; Much Ado About Nothing (opera) P.
Gu Wuwei's 1916 play The Usurper of State Power adapted both Macbeth and Hamlet as a parody of contemporary events in China. [13] Dev Virahsawmy's Zeneral Macbeff, first performed in 1982, adapted the story to the local Creole and to the Mauritian political situation. [14] He later translated Macbeth itself into Mauritian creole, as Trazedji ...
Plays and musicals based on Macbeth (14 P) ... Plays and musicals based on Romeo and Juliet (13 P) T. ... The Rivals (1664 play) S.
Music based on Macbeth (1 C, 6 P) Music based on The Merchant of Venice (2 C, 2 P) ... Music based on Romeo and Juliet (3 C, 17 P) T. Music based on The Tempest (2 C ...
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 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 ...
Just as in Shakespeare's play, Indianapolis' "Romeo and Juliet" is set in Verona, Italy, and Lyras' costume designs draw on the Italian Renaissance style. The time period and its details were ...
These four plays are argued to represent a phase of Shakespeare's career when he was experimenting with rhyming iambic pentameter as an alternative form to standard blank verse; Richard II has more rhymed verse than any other history play (19.1%), Romeo and Juliet more than any other tragedy (16.6%) and Love's Labour's and Midsummer Night more ...