Macbeth
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- proper noun
- /məkˈbɛθ/
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Macbeth
- A drum sounded, and Macbeth and Banquo swept solemnly onstage.
- Lady Macbeth
I would like you to come and play Malcolm and Macbeth this fall.
- I would like you to come and play Malcolm and Macbeth this fall.
- Think of the dramas of Shakespeare and arguably the most gruesome scene, the bloody murder of King Duncan by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
- Makes it sound a little bit more like when we say Jekyll, but what really happened is that Macduff killed Macbeth.
- And he started giving me, like, Lady Macbeth parts like that.
- And Lady Macbeth would not be sounding like Juliet.
- Tragic hero Scarface, Tony Montana, a formal tragedy, that's King Lear, that's Macbeth, that is a contemporary, that's Scarface.
- And I, I did go and talk to a lot of people and about the because he is Macbeth is ill and gets Iller as the play goes on.
- And I quote Eichmann was not Yago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been further from his mind than to determine was reach of the third.
Examples
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In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic hero who is consumed by ambition.
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"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" Lady Macbeth delivered her lines.
Fiction book (1990) -
The king is killed by Macbeth and his wife.
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Macbeth is the king of Scotland.
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King Macbeth wonders just what would he have to do to gain the crown.
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One night the King of Scotland comes to spend the night at Macbeth's castle.
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They predict Macbeth will become Scotland's king and that Banquo's descendants will one day take the throne.
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After a battle with Norway, Macbeth and Banquo, generals in the Scottish army, encounter three witches who tell them that Macbeth will be king and Banquo will be the father of a line of kings.
Fiction book (2002) -
The character of Macbeth grapples with guilt and paranoia after committing murder to become king.
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Many themes in the play center around Macbeth and the consequences of unchecked ambition.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Macbeth was the name of an 11th-century King of Scotland and comes from the Gaelic parts Mac 'son' and Beatha 'life'. So the name marks his family origin in Scotland, which is why historians and places in Scotland are linked to the real king.