Lady Macbeth: Quick Facts

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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

Painting by Johann Heinrich Fussli showing Lady Macbeth in a white gown, sleepwalking and holding a candle, with two seated figures watching her in the background.

Ray Fearon as Macbeth, in a bloodstained shirt holding a bloody dagger, and Tara Fitzgerald as Lady Macbeth, also with blood on her hands, perform onstage at The Globe Theatre.

Watch Lady Macbeth goad Macbeth into killing Duncan in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth

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