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  2. Lady Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Some regard her as becoming more powerful than Macbeth when she does this ...

  3. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    Seyton then tells Macbeth of Lady Macbeth's death, and Macbeth delivers this soliloquy as his response to the news. [1] Shortly afterwards, he is told of the apparent movement of Birnam Wood towards Dunsinane Castle (as the witches had prophesied to him), which is actually Malcolm's forces having disguised themselves with tree branches so as to ...

  4. Lady Macbeth (film) - Wikipedia

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    Lady Macbeth is a 2016 British period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly. Written for the screen by Alice Birch, it is based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie (in her film debut) and Christopher ...

  5. File:Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth (Smirke, c. 1790-1810).jpg

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    Date of birth/death: 15 April 1753 : ... Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth ... From Act II, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Depicted people: Sarah Siddons ...

  6. Macbeth (1971 film) - Wikipedia

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    Williams suggested the scene communicates Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's growing callousness after taking power, [13] while Kenneth S. Rothwell and Morrison matched the scene to Shakespeare's Macbeth describing himself as "bear-like". [14] [15] Annis's portrayal of Lady Macbeth has been likened to Lady Godiva (Lady Godiva painting 1897 by John Collier)

  7. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Johann Heinrich Füssli. At night, in the royal palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's sudden frightening habit of sleepwalking. Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand, bemoaning the recent murders and trying to wash off imaginary bloodstains from her hands.

  8. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth: Macbeth is the central character in Macbeth. Influenced by the prophecies of three witches, he murders Duncan to take his place as king of Scotland. Lady Macbeth , wife to Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide.

  9. Sleepwalking scene - Wikipedia

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    The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth by Johann Heinrich Füssli, late 18th century. (Musée du Louvre) The sleepwalking scene is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606). Carrying a taper (candlestick), Lady Macbeth enters sleepwalking. The Doctor and the Gentlewoman stand aside to observe.