Welles later directed and played the starring role in a 1948 film adaptation of the play Macbeth.

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

A film adaptation in 1971 titled The Tragedy of Macbeth was directed by Roman Polanski and executive-produced by Hugh Hefner.

In 2004, Indian director Vishal Bharadwaj directed his own adaptation to Macbeth, titled Maqbool.

It was twice invited to the Edinburgh International Festival: in 1996 with Macbeth directed by Jerzy Stuhr, and in 1997 with Antigona directed by Włodzimierz Nurkowski.

She played Lady Macbeth to Paul Scofield's Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, directed by Sir Peter Hall.

In 1952 he appeared at the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( forerunner of the Royal Shakespeare Company ) but had mixed reviews: his Prospero in The Tempest was judged too prosaic, and his Macbeth, directed by Gielgud, was thought unconvincingly villainous (" Richardson's playing of Macbeth suggests a fatal disparity between his temperament and the part ").

The following year, George More O ' Ferrall produced a live thirty minute extract from an Old Vic production of Macbeth, directed by Michel Saint-Denis and starring Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson.

* September 9 – The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a memorable production of Shakespeare ’ s Macbeth at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the lead roles, directed by Trevor Nunn.

Nunn directed the RSC production of Macbeth starring Ian McKellen in the title role and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth in 1976.

** Siberian Lady Macbeth, a 1961 film directed by Andrzej Wajda

* Macbeth ( 1948 ), directed by and starring Orson Welles

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

She also directed one non-musical production, the 1981 Lincoln Center staging of Shakespeare's Macbeth, presented on cable TV in 1982.

Orson Welles directed the New York Negro Theatre Unit's production of Voodoo Macbeth | Macbeth, c. 1935.

The most popular production was the Haitian, or “ voodoo ,” Macbeth ( 1935 ), an adaptation of Shakespeare ’ s play set in the Caribbean and directed by Orson Welles.

* Siberian Lady Macbeth, film directed by Andrzej Wajda

Sibirska Ledi Magbet ), also translated as Fury Is a Woman, is a 1962 film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov.

One day ; when the art dealer William Macbeth arrived at Kramer's studio to view work, Kramer directed him to Myers ' studio as well.

* 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

The Mormaerdom or Kingdom of Moray was ruled by the family of Macbeth ( Mac Bethad mac Findláich ) and Lulach ( Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ); not overmighty subjects, but a family who had ruled Alba within little more than a lifetime.

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

In Chronicles Banquo is an accomplice to Macbeth in the murder of the king, rather than a loyal subject of the king who is seen as an enemy by Macbeth.

Unlike his sources, Shakespeare gives Banquo no role in the King's murder, making it a deed committed solely by Macbeth and his wife.

There was, however, a need to provide a dramatic contrast to Macbeth ; a role that many scholars argue is filled by Banquo.

Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli

In the second scene of the play, King Duncan describes the brave manner in which Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo bravely led his army against invaders, fighting side by side.

He appears again to Macbeth in a vision granted by the Three Witches, wherein Macbeth sees a long line of kings descended from Banquo.

Macbeth and Banquo Meeting the Three Witches by John Wootton

The scene carries deep significance: King James, on the throne when Macbeth was written, was believed to be separated from Banquo by nine generations.

Polanski's version also emphasises Banquo's objection to Macbeth's ascendency by showing him remaining silent as the other thanes around him hail Macbeth as king.

in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, " Men of Respect " the character of Banquo is named " Bankie Como " played by American actor Dennis Farina.

Between 1855 and 1867, an outpouring of great Verdi operas followed, among them such repertory staples as Un ballo in maschera ( 1859 ), La forza del destino ( commissioned by the Imperial Theatre of Saint Petersburg for 1861 but not performed until 1862 ), and a revised version of Macbeth ( 1865 ).

The Tragedy of Macbeth ( commonly called Macbeth ) is a play written by William Shakespeare.

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself.

However, the story of Macbeth as told by Shakespeare bears little relation to real events in Scottish history, as the historical Macbeth was an admired and able monarch.

Painting by William Rimmer: scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches ' conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I

When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband ’ s objections by challenging his manhood, and successfully persuades him to kill the king that very night.

Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Henry Fuseli

Before breaking into film and television work, he was a regular actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden and Judi Dench, and appeared on stage ( and later on television ) in the RSC production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as " John Browdie " and " Sir Mulberry Hawk ", and as Macduff in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1976 stage and 1978 television production of Macbeth.

He played Malcolm in the acclaimed Trevor Nunn 1976 stage and 1978 television production of Macbeth.

The Warehouse was an RSC workshop as much as a showcase and the seasons were remarkably innovative, including Trevor Nunn's acclaimed Stratford 1976 Macbeth, starring Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, which opened at the Covent Garden venue in September 1977 before transferring to the Young Vic.