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  2. A Thurber Carnival - Wikipedia

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    "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" lists its two characters as He (First Man) and She (First Woman). When a murder mystery aficionado finds herself with nothing to read but Macbeth , she concludes that Macbeth was not the killer, and gives her acquaintance a very different way of looking at William Shakespeare 's works.

  3. Third Murderer - Wikipedia

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    James Thurber published a humorous story "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" in The New Yorker in 1937, in which the narrator attempts to solve a whodunit claim that Macduff was the Third Murderer. [13] In Marvin Kaye 's 1976 book Bullets for Macbeth , a stage director dies without telling anyone which character is the Third Murderer in his production ...

  4. Macbeth (Nesbø novel) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth is a thriller novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, a re-telling of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience. This is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. Macbeth was released in April 2018. [1] The book tells the story of Macbeth in a dystopian, imaginary Fife during the 1970s.

  5. Holinshed's Chronicles - Wikipedia

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    Spurred on by the words of the three women he encounters, Macbeth is encouraged to attempt to usurp the kingdom by force. He is also spurred on by his wife, who is ambitious and desires the title of queen for herself. In Holinshed's Chronicles, Banquo is shown as a scheming character: he is an accomplice in Macbeth's murder of Duncan. In ...

  6. James Thurber - Wikipedia

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    "The Macbeth Murder Mystery", 1937 "The Man Who Hated Moonbaum" "The Moth and the Star" "The Night the Bed Fell" "The Night the Ghost Got In" "The Owl Who Was God" "The Peacelike Mongoose" "The Princess and the Tin Box" "The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble" "The Remarkable Case of Mr.Bruhl" "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much" "The Seal Who Became ...

  7. Marion Chesney - Wikipedia

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    Marion Gibbons (née Chesney; 10 June 1936 – 30/31 December 2019) was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery novels, whose career as a published author began in 1979. She wrote numerous successful historical romance novels under a form of her maiden name, Marion Chesney, including the "Travelling Matchmaker" and "Daughters of Mannerling" series.

  8. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...

  9. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" is an essay in Shakespearean criticism by the English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in the October 1823 edition of The London Magazine. It is No. II in his ongoing series "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium Eater" which are signed, "X.Y.Z.". [ 1 ]