Lady Macbeth
Fictional Character
ALLISON PEARSON: Behind every useless man is a woman under siegeIs it possible for such naivety and simple decency to survive the cataclysmic impact of sudden global fame? Can Abi Relate to Lady Macbeth? Best of luck to Abi Titmuss, who is trying to put her glamour-model days behind her and taking... In this article: Susan Boyle, Bella Swan, Bob Geldof, Edward Cullen, Edward Cullen, and Stephenie Meyer |
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Daily Mail | 6 days ago
From lads' mag favourite to Lady Macbeth: Abi Titmuss on playing Shakespeare's famous villain
Last updated at 1:15 AM on 21st November 2009 Switching roles: Abi Titmuss is taking on the role of Lady Macbeth in a new theatre production She's the nurse who defended John Leslie against rape claims - then reinvented herself as a...
In this article: Abi Titmuss, John Leslie, William Shakespeare, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Tea, Macbeth, DVD, and London
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washingtonpost.com | 6 days ago
Macbeth and other guilty souls in literature
...into guilt. The tragedy of Macbeth is a tale of murder that leads to a ferocious sense of guilt that drives Macbeth to his downfall, and Lady Macbeth into insanity and suicide ("...Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of...
In this article: Oedipus, Macbeth, Culpability, Scrupulosity, Suicide, Oedipus complex, Catholic Church, and Confessions
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Playbill.com | 7 days ago
PHOTO CALL: Equivocation at Geffen Playhouse in L.A.
..."As Equivocation's tale unwinds onstage, the actors ultimately play about two dozen roles ranging from conspirators and priests to Lady Macbeth and King Lear. The play tells the story of how King James commissions Shakespeare to write...
In this article: William Shakespeare, King Lear, David Esbjornson, and Connor Trinneer
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L.A. Times - Africa | November 18, 2009
Operatic trills rise from Botswana bush
...opportunity for a local soprano. An actor performs in "The Okavango Macbeth," the story of a troop of baboons and its alpha female, Lady Macbeth. (Monirul Bhuiyan / AFP / Getty Images) Reporting from Gabarone, Botswana - The villages of...
In this article: Botswana, Alexander McCall Smith, Tin, Gabarone, Macbeth, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and Bourg-la-Reine
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Independent.ie | November 16, 2009
Catcalls and boos greet folk hero of the 70s
...may be displaced remnants of a Soviet platoon while Macduff's band of followers might well be awaiting transportation to a gulag. Lady Macbeth has a penchant for vivid red, including a dinky little handbag from which she seems inseparable...
In this article: Specials, Dublin, Tricky, Macbeth, Macbeth, and Cat Stevens
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Backstage | November 13, 2009
Making Tracks
...as Gemma, a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang in Northern California. Manipulating her son and husband with moves that would make Lady Macbeth blush, Sagal makes for one bad mother. The actor had an edge in landing the job; the show was...
In this article: Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy, Mary Tyler Moore, Mark Teschner, Married With Children, Liz Sagal, and Jean Sagal
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Daily Express | November 09, 2009
My mother the Gurkha heroine
...orphanage he visited and a lonely shot of a Scottish landscape. (It turns out he and his mother are directly descended from the real Lady Macbeth: She wasn t as evil as Shakespeare portrayed her, says Jamie.) Incredibly, this week will be...
In this article: Joanna Lumley, Nepal, Kathmandu, Second World War, Stephen Barlow, and Britain
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Washington Times | November 09, 2009
Taking Names
...Mr. McCall Smith, who flew in from Scotland to attend the premiere last month, told Agence France-Presse. The dominant female baboon, Lady Macbeth, plots with aspiring troop leader Macbeth to kill her husband-to-be and incumbent dominant...
In this article: Dennis Hopper, Alexander McCall Smith, Macbeth, Baboon, William Shakespeare, Bankruptcy, Agence France-Presse, Cancer, and Honolulu Symphony
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 04, 2009
A Hollywood High makeover of 'Macbeth'
...find many locations right on campus. "I never even thought about acting before," said Christine Ellison, a junior, of being asked to play Lady Macbeth. "This was the biggest project that we've attempted to do here, so I wanted to be in on...
In this article: Macbeth, East Hollywood High School, William Shakespeare, West Valley City, Utah, and Tower Theatre
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Colorado Springs Gazette | October 30, 2009
Homer meets Bard
...sometimes accompanied by visual cues drawn by Miller on a video screen above the stage. Marge Simpson's dark side emerges in her Lady MacBeth. Barney, not surprisingly, plays McDuff (a nod to the character's favorite beverage, Duff...
In this article: Macbeth, Matt Groening, Homer Simpson, Simpsons, The Simpsons, William Shakespeare, Ned Flanders, Montgomery Burns, and Marge Simpson
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Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603-1607). She is the wife to the play's antagonist, Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide, she becomes Queen of Scotland, and later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act, an apparent suicide. Her name and age are never disclosed, and, although she mentions early in the play to having suckled and loved an infant, her child is never seen nor referenced again.
The character's origins lie in the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth appears to be a composite of two separate and distinct personages in Holinshed's work: Donwald's nagging, murderous wife in the account of King Duff, and Macbeth's ambitious wife in the account of King Duncan. Although Macbeth's wife can be traced to a real-world counterpart, Queen Gruoch of Scotland, Shakespeare's fictional character is tied so weakly to her that the bonds are virtually non-existent.
Lady Macbeth is a powerful presence in the play, most notably in the first two acts. Following the murder of King Duncan however, her role in the plot diminishes. She becomes an uninvolved spectator to Macbeth's plotting, and a nervous hostess at a banquet dominated by her husband's thrilling hallucinations. Her fifth act sleepwalking scene is a tour de force and her cry, "Out, damned spot!," has become a phrase familiar to most speakers of the English language. The report of her death late in the fifth act provides the inspiration for Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech.
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