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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, now in Tate Britain, in London. Painted in 1889, it depicts actress Ellen Terry in a famous performance as Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare 's tragedy Macbeth , wearing a green dress decorated with iridescent beetle wings .
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 ...
Lady Macduff, wife to Macduff, is murdered, with her children, in Macbeth. Lady Montague is Romeo's mother in Romeo and Juliet. Lady Mortimer , daughter of Glendower and wife of Edmund Mortimer (1), sings in Welsh in Henry IV, Part 1. Lady Northumberland (hist) is the Earl of Northumberland's wife, who dissuades him from joining the rebels at ...
The production strongly suggests that Lady Macbeth is in league with the witches. One scene shows her leading the three to a firelight incantation. In Eugène Ionesco's satirical version of the play Macbett (1972), one of the witches removes a costume to reveal that she is, in fact, Lady Duncan, and wants to be Macbeth's mistress. Once Macbeth ...
Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Johann Heinrich Füssli. At night, in the royal palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's sudden frightening habit of sleepwalking. Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand, bemoaning the recent murders and trying to wash off imaginary bloodstains from her hands.
William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name when in the theatre (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead). Actors also avoid even quoting the lines from Macbeth before performances, particularly the Witches' incantations. Outside a theatre and after a performance, the play can be spoken of ...
Dark Lady: A dark, malicious or doomed woman. Her darkness is either literally, in the sense she has a colored skin, or in a metaphorical sense (e.g., that she is a tragic, doomed figure). Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's tragic history play Macbeth; Miss Trunchbull in the comic book Matilda by Roald Dahl; Annie Wilkes in the book Misery ...
The black & white (grisaille) sketch is identified in the article as depicting Ellen Terry in the costume as Macbeth, but the image clearly depicts her surrounded by men in Arab garb. "Macbeth" takes place in Scotland! I do not believe that this drawing depicts any scene from "Macbeth" and probably does not even depict the same costume.