Questions, Resources, and General Banter - Macbeth

[Jim]

As with most of Shakespeare’s work, it is difficult to assign a specific year of authorship. For Macbeth, a likely date of origin is between 1603 – 1606; but then, with Shakespeare, who cares about specific dates, the play’s the thing….


Wikipedia page for William Shakespeare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...


Wikipedia page for Macbeth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth


A few Shakespeare resources:

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/

http://www.quartos.org/


Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and post links to resources for William Shakespeare and Macbeth.

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[Jim]

A thug's eye view of the play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PKo...

[Lily]

Witches continue to fascinate. A fellow Goodreads reader brought to my attention a play currently showing in London. (However, so far as I can tell, the only relationship to Macbeth is the topic of witches.)

More here: http://watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk/pag...

[Lily]

Shows the location of Fife (Macduff is Thane of Fife):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife

"Thane was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl,[1] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a shire or thanage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thane_%...

Cawdor and Glamis appear to be villages, rather than territories per se. Cawdor is in northern Scotland, Glamis is adjacent to Fife.

For more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawdor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamis

Map I found useful in conjunction with the above:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/scotland/m...

King Macbeth was an 11th century historical figure (died 1057), although a very different person than Shakespeare's character.

[Lily]

http://www.folger.edu/macbeth

Numerous Macbeth related resources. The one I browsed quickly tonight was the file of images of many actors and actresses who have played Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as well as some of the other characters.

[Cecily]

There is a new film version, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. It's bloodly (very), bold and brilliant.

It's a Shakespearean script, but as there are long periods of no dialogue at all, they cut a great deal, but generally, excellent acting, and visually stunning. It really emphasises the horror, madness and cruelty, though. Not for the fainthearted.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2884018/?...

We saw it yesterday (UK), and it's out in the US at the start of December.