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  2. Cultural references to Macbeth - Wikipedia

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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. [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 ...

  3. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Scholars have identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare's works, including Felix Mendelssohn's overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet. His work has inspired several operas, among them Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, whose critical standing compares ...

  4. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Yet his account contains very few biblical references. Inspired by Hall's theme of divine retribution, Shakespeare adds biblical references that reflect that theme (1.4.168 "My blood upon your heads!"; 2.2.129 "Their blood upon thy head."; 2.6.55 "Measure for measure must be answered.").”

  5. Macbeth (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (/ m ə k ˈ b ɛ θ /), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. [ a ] It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambitions and power.

  7. A performance 30 years ago inspired Indianapolis' 'Romeo and ...

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    "Romeo and Juliet" — which is based on the play by Shakespeare and which uses Prokofiev's music composed around 1935 — has become a staple for orchestras and ballet companies around the world.

  8. Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Wikipedia

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    In, again, Macbeth, the entire play "is done upon a stronger and more systematic principle of contrast than any other of Shakespear's plays." [304] He notes that "a certain tender gloom overspreads the whole" of Cymbeline. [31] Romeo and Juliet shows "the whole progress of human life" in which "one generation pushes another off the stage."

  9. Category : Plays and musicals based on works by William ...

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