One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entangles the conscience-stricken nobleman in a web of treachery, deceit, and more murders, which ultimately spells his doom. Set amid the gloomy castles and lonely heaths of medieval Scotland, Macbeth paints a striking dramatic portrait of a man of honor and integrity destroyed by a fatal character flaw and the tortures of a guilty imagination.
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Click "Watch The Movie" to watch a PBS adaptation of Macbeth set in Russia during World War II.
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What's the deal with macbeth? (Acts 3-5)
"Macbeth shall sleep no more" (II.ii.57)
"Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst" (II.ii.94-95)
"There is none but he whose being I do fear" (III.i.58-59)
"Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst" (II.ii.94-95)
"There is none but he whose being I do fear" (III.i.58-59)
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