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  2. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is the beginning of the second sentence of one of the most famous soliloquies in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. It takes place in the beginning of the fifth scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led by Malcolm and Macduff , are approaching Macbeth 's castle to besiege it.

  3. 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 ...

  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 .

  5. Sleepwalking scene - Wikipedia

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    The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth by Johann Heinrich Füssli, late 18th century. (Musée du Louvre) Act 5, Scene 1, better known as the sleepwalking scene, is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606). It deals with the guilt experienced by Lady Macbeth, one of the main themes of the play.

  6. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence it having a title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth, and echoing the title of ...

  7. Gruoch - Wikipedia

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    Gruoch is the model for the character Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.; She is the heroine of Gordon Bottomley's 1921 verse drama Gruach, in which the King's Envoy (i.e. Macbeth) sees her sleepwalking on the eve of her marriage to another man, falls in love with her and carries her off.

  8. Macbeth (1971 film) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth (also known as The Tragedy of Macbeth or Roman Polanski's Film of Macbeth) is a 1971 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name , it tells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery ...

  9. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    [132] [133] [134] In Macbeth, the shortest and most compressed of Shakespeare's tragedies, [135] uncontrollable ambition incites Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, to murder the rightful king and usurp the throne until their own guilt destroys them in turn. [136] In this play, Shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure.