We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy If I were to stage Macbeth I would keep in mind the themes running throughout the play. Therefore I would consider would sort of stage would be most appropriate for staging it. I feel […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy It is crucial to understand that in all Shakespeare’s productions whether it be in music dance or theatre that ideas and meaning are subtly outlined so that everyone should take out their own interpretation […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy I suppose it was unfair to the cast of Macbeth, but I was rather wary of the production, I expected little more than a competent performance from well-known actors who were trying to create […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy There have been many film adaptations of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. These are widely varied, from the Japanese version ‘the Throne of Blood’ to the gangster version ‘Joe Macbeth’. Two of the best-known adaptations are, […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Having considered my own expectations of Act 4, scene 1, I expected it to be a turning point for Macbeth and to highlight Macbeth’s lack of control at this time. The scene creates an […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Macbeth is a tragedy set in Scotland. There are themes of supernatural powers, betrayal, murder and self-destruction in this play. It shows how Macbeth kills to become king and how Lady Macbeth’s passion and […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy I have studied the opening scene of Welles’ and Polanski’s videos and Shakespeare’s text in detail; through this, I have discovered that the two video versions are very different from each other’s. There are […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this piece of work I hope to compare three different screen versions of the witches scene on video. The first was the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production directed by Trevor Nunn (1978), it was […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In Drama I have been studying two plays. The first one is Macbeth, by far the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, which explores the nature of evil, witchcraft and ambition. Shakespeare examines jealousy, ambition, self […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this essay, I am going to compare two different interpretations of Act 4 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, to see how different directors interpret a text and use different techniques to support their […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy One of them was Roman Polanskis. I didn’t think it was a very good version of Macbeth. I think this because it cuts out some of the original lines, it also showed you the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Before watching any of the above versions I read the brief script for the first scene. From this piece of the script I would expect each of our extracts to fulfill the wishes of […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In my opinion, Macbeth is one of the greatest tragedies that William Shakespeare has ever written, and indeed I believe that Shakespeare was one of the greatest playwrights that ever lived. Obviously I am […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In the Elizabethan period everyone from a pick pocket to the Queen flocked to the theatre. It was a massive social event for all walks of life, but just imagine the noise of the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In Act our Scene 1 we are confronted with many of the themes of the play, which have already been introduced. The themes of the play are the supernatural, blood, good & evil, light […]