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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Scottish king from 1040 to 1057 This article is about the historical Scottish king. For for the play by William Shakespeare, see Macbeth. For for the main character of that play, see Macbeth (character). Macbeth The name Mac Beathad Mac Fhindlaích in the Annals of Ulster King of Alba ...
Gruoch ingen Boite (fl. c. 1015 – unknown) was a Scottish queen, the daughter of Boite mac Cináeda, son of Cináed II. [1] The dates of her life are uncertain. She is most famous for being the wife and queen of MacBethad mac Findlaích (Macbeth), as well as the basis for Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Macbeth hears a prophecy of his new thaneship from the Three Witches shortly before receiving word of the matter from Duncan, such that while the rule of Cawdor may be inconsequential itself it nonetheless proves the inevitability of the Witches' secondary prediction of Macbeth's ascent to become King of Scotland.
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. Banquo is in a third of the play's scenes, as both a human and a ghost. As significant as he is to the plot, he has fewer lines than the relatively insignificant Ross, a Scottish nobleman who survives the play. [12]
Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions, the first edition in 1577, and the second in 1587. It was a large, comprehensive description of British history published in three volumes (England, Scotland and Ireland).
Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.
REVIEW: 3/5 Lady Macbeth’s whispers crackle in your ear as audience members wear headphones in Max Webster’s intimate production, but the sound design can sometimes feel like a distraction
Lulach was the son of Gruoch of Scotland, from her first marriage to Gille Coemgáin, Mormaer of Moray, and thus the stepson of Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findlaích). Through his mother, he was also the great-grandson of either Kenneth II or Kenneth III .