Blade
“It gleamed darkly, a pattern of whorls in the steel catching the strange gray light…”
Read MoreThe Curse of The Scottish Play
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” has long been believed to be cursed…
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“Double, double toil and trouble”: The Gundestrup Cauldron, National Museum of Denmark
Read MoreBeerbohm Tree’s Silent Macbeth (1916)
In 1916, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film of “Macbeth,” now lost…
Read MoreEdwin Forrest as Macbeth
In 1849 in New York, the rivalry between Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, both starring as Macbeth, sparked one of the worst riots in U.S. history…
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