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Macbethad mac Findláech(anglicisedas Macbeth MacFinlay; died 15 August 1057), nicknamed the Red King(Middle Irish: Rí Deircc),[1]was King of Scotlandfrom 1040 until his death in 1057. He ruled during the period of Scottish history known as the kingdom of Alba. Little is known about Macbeth's early life, although he was the son of Findláech ...
Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. It is short: more than a thousand lines shorter than Othello and King Lear, and only slightly more than half as long as Hamlet. This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance. This would ...
Duncan I of Scotland. Donnchad mac Crinain ( Scottish Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain; [ 1] anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick"; [ 2] c. 1001 – 14 August 1040) [ 3] was king of Scotland ( Alba) from 1034 to 1040. He is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare 's play Macbeth .
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 through the character of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The Scottish Play. A 1972 book cover for a Galician printing of Macbeth. Theatrical superstition holds that speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will lead to a curse. The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare 's Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to ...
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare 's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.
Hamish Macbeth is the lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh, in a series of murder mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney). Considered by many to be a useless, lazy moocher, Macbeth is very well informed about his community's activities and often overlooks minor transgressions in the ...
Dunsinane Hill from Black Hill. Dunsinane Hill ( / dʌnˈsɪnən / dun-SIN-ən) is a hill of the Sidlaws near the village of Collace in Perthshire, Scotland. It is mentioned in Shakespeare 's play Macbeth, in which a vision informs Macbeth that he "shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him."