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Macbeth: Play

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Foster online edition. Image:
James Stow, after Richard Westfall, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

Macbeth: Video

1979 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson.

Timeline chapters: Act 1 - 2:19 Act 2 - 33:04 Act 3 - 58:15 Act 4 - 1:28:49 Act 5 - 2:00:30 Original network - ITV (TV channel) -

British free-to-air television channel

CAST Ian McKellen as Macbeth Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth John Bown as Lennox Susan Dury as 3rd Witch / Lady Macduff Judith Harte as 2nd Witch / Gentlewoman Greg Hicks as Donalbain / Seyton David Howey as Sergeant / 1st Murderer / Doctor Griffith Jones as Duncan Marie Kean as 1st Witch Ian McDiarmid as The Porter / Ross Bob Peck as Macduff Duncan Preston as Angus Roger Rees as Malcolm Zak Taylor as Fleance / Messenger Stephen Warner as Young Macduff John Woodvine as Banquo

Macbeth: Secondary Readings

Adelman on Maternal Power in Macbeth
Adelman, Janet. “‘Born of Woman’: Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth.” In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, edited by Harold Bloom, New ed., 33–60. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2010. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10403543.
Chamberlain on Macbeth and Murderous Mothers
Chamberlain, Stephanie. “Fantasizing Infanticide: Lady Macbeth and the Murdering Mother in Early Modern England.” College Literature 32 (n.d.): 72.
Levin on Lady MacBeth and Daemonologie of Hysteria
Levin, Joanna. “Lady MacBeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria.” ELH 69, Spring (2002): 21–55.
Companion, Not of Woman Born
Companion, Helen. “‘Not of Woman Born’: Lady Macbeth’s Cesarean Section.” Journal of the Wooden O 16 (August 1, 2017): 72–85.
Novy on Adopted Children in Shakespeare's Romances
Novy, Marianne. “Adopted Children and Constructions of Heredity, Nurture, and Parenthood in Shakespeare’s Romances.” In Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800, edited by Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore, 63–82. Children’s Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005030498.html.