Macbeth: Quick Facts

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Ray Fearon as Macbeth and Tara Fitzgerald as Lady Macbeth, both wearing crowns and regal costumes, stand at center stage with actors in dark robes behind them at The Globe Theatre.

Macbeth, directed by Orson Welles

David Thewlis as King Duncan and Jack Reynor as Malcolm stand outdoors in medieval robes, holding weapons, against a backdrop of hills in a scene from the 2015 film Macbeth.

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.

Alec Guinness as Macbeth

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth

Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.

Joseph Anton Koch: Macbeth and the Witches

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

Listen to Shakespeare's Macbeth suffering pangs of guilt for a murder encouraged by Lady Macbeth

Watch the Weird Sisters conspire in the opening scene of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth

Listen to a teacher explaining the reason for Macbeth being her favorite Shakespeare play to teach

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