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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.

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

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Scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth

Watch Lady Macbeth exhort Macbeth to murder Duncan in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth

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