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Macbeth
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...Macbeth (măkbĕth´), d. 1057, king of Scotland...overthrown by Duncan's ancestor Malcolm II. Macbeth represented northern elements in the population...ties with the Saxons advocated by Duncan. Macbeth was defeated in 1054 by Siward, earl of......
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MacBeth, George
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...George MacBeth, 1932–92, Scottish poet, grad. Oxford, 1955. He was until 1976 a producer for the BBC. His best poetry, such as The......
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Shakespeare's Plays ( (table))
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......Earl of Gloucester Edgar Earl of Kent Edmund Goneril Regan Duke of Albany Lear's Fool Tragedy Macbeth 1605 1623 Holinshed Duncan Macbeth Lady Macbeth Malcolm Macduff Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra 1606 1623 Plutarch, Lives (tr. 1579) Mark Antony......
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Dunsinane
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...Dunsinane (dŭn´sĬnān´), westernmost of the Sidlaw Hills, 1,012 ft (308 m) high, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland. On its summit are ruins of a fort, called Macbeth's Castle; it is the traditional scene of Macbeth's final defeat as related by Shakespeare....
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Shakespeare, William
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......That Ends Well,Measure for Measure,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth,Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens...familial, state, and cosmic levels, Othello, Lear, and Macbeth present clear oppositions of order and chaos, good and evil......
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Malcolm III
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......Malcolm Canmore), d. 1093, king of Scotland (1057–93), son of Duncan I; successor to Macbeth (d. 1057). It took him some years after Macbeth's death to regain the boundaries of his father's kingdom. About 1068, Edgar Atheling......
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Evans, Maurice
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......such roles as King Richard II (1937), Hamlet (1938), and Macbeth (1941). He was also noted for his productions of Shaw's works. Evans's films include Androcles and the Lion (1952), Macbeth (1959), and Planet of the Apes (1967). He performed in......
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Bradley, Andrew Cecil
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......known for his Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), a classic work of criticism noted for its exposition of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth as psychological beings and of Shakespeare as a consummate interpreter of the human soul. Bradley's other works include Oxford......
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Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
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......one of the first outstanding American actresses, b. Boston. Cushman turned from opera to drama and in 1835 first played Lady Macbeth, the role in which she was said to be unequaled. Her portrayals of Romeo and Hamlet won her popular favor, but her most celebrated......
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Glamis
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......Scotland. King Malcolm II died (1034) nearby, and a sculptured cross in the village is known as King Malcolm's Gravestone. Macbeth was thane of Glamis, and the castle, seat of the earl of Strathmore, is erroneously claimed to be the scene of Duncan......