We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.

The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife and later Queen of Scotland

Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about the witches ' prophecies.

Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband ’ s uncertainty, and wishes him to murder Duncan in order to obtain kingship.

He and Lady Macbeth plan to get Duncan ’ s two chamberlains drunk so that they will black out ; the next morning they will frame the chamberlains for the murder.

He is so shaken that Lady Macbeth has to take charge.

At the banquet, Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment.

The others panic at the sight of Macbeth raging at an empty chair, until a desperate Lady Macbeth tells them that her husband is merely afflicted with a familiar and harmless malady.

This time, Lady Macbeth tells the lords to leave, and they do so.

Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed.

At night, in the king ’ s palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth ’ s strange habit of sleepwalking.

Suddenly, Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand.

Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).

His last reference to Lady Macbeth, however, reveals "' tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life " ( 5. 9. 71 – 72 ), leading most to assume that she committed suicide, but the method is undisclosed.

" Lastly, both plays contain powerful and manipulative female figures: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth and Banquo then together plot the murder of Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging.

Macbeth's announcement that he has " murdered sleep " is figuratively mirrored in Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking.

She was playing her most famous role, Lady Macbeth, and the audience refused to allow the play to continue after the end of the sleepwalking scene.

Annis gained attention for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth ( 1971 ) in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy in the nude.

Two more subtle changes include an insinuation that Lady Macbeth fatally stabs Duncan prior to Macbeth's attack on the king, and the fact that Macbeth is witness to Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and madness scene ; in the play, he is not present.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

The AID has undertaken the redecoration of the White House library as a project in connection with the work being done by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Fine Arts Advisory Committee to secure antiques for the presidential home.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

In around 1390, the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Abensberg was founded by Count John II and his wife, Agnes.

These Oblates were dispersed by Napoleon I in 1810, while another group called the Oblates of Our Lady of Rho escaped this fate.

* 1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

* 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy of the United States paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle.

* 900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander in chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah.

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

* " Our Lady of The Bronx " by Black 47

Clinton decided to remain as Arkansas governor ( following consideration for the potential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton for governor, initially favored – but ultimately vetoed – by the First Lady ).

Some Wiccans celebrate " High Beltaine " by enacting a ritual union of the May Lord and May Lady.

It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.

The " Old Lady of Threadneedle St " ( the Bank personified ) is ravished by William Pitt the Younger.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

Another memorial, the Nile Clumps near Amesbury, are stands of beech trees purportedly planted by Lord Queensbury at the bequest of Lady Hamilton and Thomas Hardy after Nelson's death.

Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.

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