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  2. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth: Macbeth is the central character in Macbeth. Influenced by the prophecies of three witches, he murders Duncan to take his place as king of Scotland. Lady Macbeth , wife to Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Macbeth (character) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 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.

  6. Supernatural fiction - Wikipedia

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    In supernatural fiction, though, magic and monsters are not the norm and the mystery of such things is usually closely intertwined in the plot. The supernatural genre highlights supernatural creatures or happenings within the real world. Moreover, supernatural fiction also tends to focus on suspense and mystery and less on action and adventure.

  7. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    Lady Macbeth: Florence Pugh: 2016 [170] Gloria Colossal: Anne Hathaway [106] Deadpool / Wade Wilson: Deadpool Deadpool 2 Deadpool & Wolverine: Ryan Reynolds: 2016 2018 2024 [71] [91] Harley Quinn: DC Extended Universe: Margot Robbie: 2016–present [171] Raees Alam Raees: Shah Rukh Khan: 2017 [92] Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Lady Bird ...

  8. Three Witches - Wikipedia

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    The Three Witches of Macbeth have inspired several painters over the years who have sought to capture the supernatural darkness surrounding Macbeth's encounters with them. For example, by the 18th century, belief in witches had waned in the United Kingdom.

  9. Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien, a philologist and medievalist as well as a fantasy author, recorded that he disliked William Shakespeare's work. [1] In a letter, he wrote of his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays of the shabby use made in Shakespeare [in Macbeth] of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'".