Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

In 1995, Charles played The Porter in Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, also on Radio 4.

The trio were likened to the Greek chorus, and the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, as they would sit in the snug bar of the Rovers Return, passing judgement over family, neighbours and frequently each other.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

House of Cards draws heavily from Shakespeare's Macbeth and Richard III, both of which examine issues of power, ambition and corruption.

In Shakespeare's play Macbeth a comic relief character delivers a 20 line monologue and satire that makes reference to events of that time.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy are the accounts of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles ( 1587 ), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Macbeth has been compared to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways.

Kemble's Macbeth struck some critics as too mannered and polite for Shakespeare's text.

On the stage, Lady Macbeth is considered one of the more " commanding and challenging " roles in Shakespeare's work.

He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play presents a highly inaccurate picture of his reign and personality.

In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth is portrayed initially as a valorous and good-hearted general to King Duncan, but who later is corrupted by ambition.

He is the historical equivalent of the character of the same name in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

Although Shakespeare's Macbeth presents Malcolm as a grown man and his father as an old one, it appears that Duncan was still young in 1040, and Malcolm and his brother Donalbane ( Domnall Bán ) were children.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

In 1953, Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and, in 1955, they performed a season at Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus.

) – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth in London.

* Thomas Middleton writes The Witch, a tragicomedy that may have entered into the present-day text of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Such imagery can be traced back to Renaissance prints depicting witches and to the three " weird sisters " in Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's greatest ( Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth ) were composed during this period, as well as many others ( see Shakespearean tragedy ).

In Act 3, Scene VI of Shakespeare's Macbeth ( c. 1603 – 06 ) Lennox refers to Edward as " the most pious Edward ," and in Act 4, Scene III, Malcolm describes his powers of healing those afflicted with " the evil ", or scrofula.

** Shakespeare's Macbeth ( as Lady Macbeth ) ( in French )

The " Dramat " produced the American premieres of Albert Camus's Caligula and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, as well as original works by Cole Porter, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Thornton Wilder written when they were students.

" So in Love " is a popular song, written by Cole Porter, from his musical Kiss Me, Kate, ( opening on Broadway in 1948 ) based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.

Eldon Elder, who designed the stage, also created a gay, spacious set that blended attractively with the park background and Shakespeare's lighthearted mood.

In this, the murdered king has two sons — Hroar and Helgi — who spend most of the story in disguise, under false names, rather than feigning madness, in a sequence of events that differs from Shakespeare's.

Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven.

Q1 is considerably shorter than Q2 or F1 and may be a memorial reconstruction of the play as Shakespeare's company performed it, by an actor who played a minor role ( most likely Marcellus ).

William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part II contains a wry comment about people who claim to be related to royal families.

He and Banquo meet the three witches, who make exactly the same prophecies as in Shakespeare's version.

This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads.

The longest sequence was written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri ( c. 1509 – 1587 ), who was 23 years old when Michelangelo met him in 1532, at the age of 57 ; these make up the first large sequence of poems in any modern tongue addressed by one man to another, predating Shakespeare's sonnets to the fair youth by fifty years:

Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

is an example of Shakespeare's obvious borrowing from Florio's dialogue between Peter and Stephan, who have just arrived in the north:

There is a description of the figure of Oxford in The Revenge of Bussy D ' Ambois, a 1613 play by George Chapman, who has been suggested as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

* Like Laertes, who received the famous list of maxims from his father Polonius, Robert Cecil received a similar list from his father Burghley — a list that E. K. Chambers suggested as Shakespeare's likely source.

Joseph Sobran questions why Shakespeare ( who lived until 1616 ) failed to publish a corrected and authorized edition if they are fiction, as well as why they fail to match Shakespeare's life story if they are autobiographic.

* The 2000 YA novel A Question of Will by Lynne Kositsky addresses the debate over who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.

The action of Stoppard's play takes place mainly " in the wings " of Shakespeare's, with brief appearances of major characters from Hamlet who enact fragments of the original's scenes.

The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet who are childhood friends of the prince, focusing on their actions with the events of Hamlet as background.

After his death, Richard's image was blackened by his Tudor successors, culminating in the famous portrayal of him in Shakespeare's play Richard III as a physically deformed machiavellian villain who cheerfully commits numerous murders in order to claw his way to power.

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.

He is also remembered as the character in William Shakespeare's play Richard III who was drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine.

In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, the schoolmaster who pretends to be Lucentio's father, Vincentio, is from Mantua.