Cauldron
“Double, double toil and trouble”: cauldron imagery was already ancient when Shakespeare got to it…
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Silent Macbeth
In 1916, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film of “Macbeth,” now lost…
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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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