Macbeth, fearing for his position as King of Scotland, orders the deaths of Macduff's wife, children and relatives.

In January 1936, halfway through this period, Pravda — under direct orders from Joseph Stalin — published the infamous editorial ' Chaos Instead of Music ' that denounced the composer and specifically targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

A battle culminates in the slaying of the young Siward and Macduff's confrontation with Macbeth, and the English forces overwhelm his army and castle.

Macklin performed in Scottish dress, reversing an earlier tendency to dress Macbeth as an English brigadier ; he also removed Garrick's death speech and further trimmed Lady Macduff's role.

Therefore he would not have killed Macduff's family, and Macduff would not have sought revenge and killed Macbeth.

Meanwhile, Macbeth murders Macduff's family.

On high ground, about a mile southwest at, stand the remains ( only the pedestal ) of Macduff's Cross, which ( in legend ) marks the spot where the clan Macduff in return for its chief's services against Macbeth was granted rights of sanctuary and composition for murder done in hot blood.

His first role was in Macbeth as Macduff's son.

Macduff's son is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ( 1606 ).

Macduff's son is viewed as a symbol of the youthful innocence Macbeth hates and fears, and the scene has been compared by one critic to the biblical Slaughter of the Innocents.

Macbeth, seeing that, as the Three Witches foretold, he is destined to be a King with no offspring to inherit the throne, is determined to kill the offspring of others, including Fleance and Macduff's son.

The tension that exists between Fleance, Macduff's son, and Macbeth is made stronger by Macbeth's child.

Macduff's son, in his bold denunciation of the murderers, is a strong symbol of the danger Macbeth faces.

King Duncan welcomes and praises Macbeth and Banquo, and declares that he will spend the night at Macbeth's castle at Inverness ; he also names his son Malcolm as his heir.

No other version of the story has Macbeth kill the king in Macbeth's own castle.

He later appears in Macbeth ’ s castle as a guest.

In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth ( 1603 – 06 ), the eponymous character resides at Glamis Castle, although the historical King Macbeth ( d. 1057 ) had no connection to the castle.

Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres.

* " Inverness ", the name of Macbeth's castle in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare

When Macbeth calls upon his nobles to contribute to the construction of Dunsinane castle, Macduff avoids the summons, arousing Macbeth's suspicions.

Macduff makes his first appearance in the play in 2. 3 when he discovers the corpse of King Duncan in Macbeth ’ s castle.

The castle is said to have been built by Máel Coluim III of Scotland, after he had razed to the ground the castle in which Macbeth of Scotland according to much later tradition, murdered Máel Coluim's father Donnchad I of Scotland, and which stood on a hill around 1 km to the north-east.

Polanski later returned to the castle to shoot a few scenes for his The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 1971 ), in which it stands in for Glamis Castle.

After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he will not be king himself, but that his descendants will be.

If Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, is Prince of Cumberland then Macbeth would be next in line to the throne and no coup would be needed, effectively removing this ambiguity from Banquo's character.

Whereas Macbeth places his hope in the prediction that he will be king, Banquo argues that evil only offers gifts that lead to destruction.

Macbeth eventually sees that Banquo can no longer be trusted to aid him in his evil, and considers his friend a threat to his newly acquired throne.

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

To add to the confusion, some lines Macbeth directs to the ghost, such as " Thy bones are marrowless ", cannot rightly be said of Banquo, who has only recently died.

The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth.

Though Banquo challenges them first, they address Macbeth, hailing him as " Thane of Glamis ," " Thane of Cawdor ," and that he shall " be King hereafter.

" Macbeth appears to be stunned to silence.

While the two men wonder at these pronouncements, the witches vanish, and another thane, Ross, arrives and informs Macbeth of his newly bestowed title: Thane of Cawdor, as the previous Thane of Cawdor shall be put to death for his traitorous activities.

Macbeth invites Banquo to a royal banquet, where he discovers that Banquo and his young son, Fleance, will be riding out that night.

Thirdly, a crowned child holding a tree states that Macbeth will be safe until Great Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill.

Macbeth boasts that he has no reason to fear Macduff, for he cannot be killed by any man born of woman.

In 1605 a medal was struck commemorating the King ’ s escape from the Gunpowder Plot that pictured a serpent among flowers. Macbeth cannot be dated precisely, owing to significant evidence of later revisions.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

Shakespeare may allude to the image when Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't " ( 1. 5. 74-5 ).. And the Porter's speech ( 1. 3. 1 – 21 ), in particular, may allude to the trial of the Jesuit Henry Garnet in spring, 1606 ; " equivocator " ( line 8 ) may refer to Garnet's defence of " equivocation ", and " farmer " ( 4 ) to one of Garnet's aliases.

Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband by questioning his manhood, wishing herself to be “ unsexed ,” and does not contradict Macbeth when he says that a woman like her should give birth only to boys.

Lady Macbeth ’ s behavior certainly shows that women can be just as ambitious and ruthless as men.

That brevity has also been connected to other unusual features: the fast pace of the first act, which has seemed to be " stripped for action "; the comparative flatness of the characters other than Macbeth ; the oddness of Macbeth himself compared with other Shakespearean tragic heroes.