#macbeth play

[pjo-tvs-version]

Something about the play Macbeth that really isn't talked about is the character of Banquo. He is always portrayed as this loyal, noble, righteous and honorable person. But we never dig into his ambiguity as a character. He was there with Macbeth when the witches delivered the prophecy, he was kind of subconsciously (I believe consciously though) always suspecting Macbeth's intentions and his reactions from the very beginning. However, we never notice him telling this to anybody. The witches' words did manage to get to him. We see him as this faithful person to Duncan but never once does he mention his meeting with the witches. But never once does he call Macbeth out. It's always like he knows what stuff Macbeth did but just let's it slide. Maybe, you never know he wasn't this great person that he is shown as. Maybe internally he was alright with the drastic turn in events. Maybe a tiny part in him wanted this to happen so that the words of the witches come true. Imagine him having nightmares because of these guilty thoughts and waking up Fleance, his son which makes him extremely concerned about his father. @solo-walker what do you think?

[pot-o-curry]

David Tennant in Macbeth (2024)

《CW; blood & self-harm imagery》

[tristansfreezingtheirbrain]

I PLAYED LADY MACBETH IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY MIDDLE SCHOOL SELVES THOUGHTS WHERE ABOUT THE SCENE:

“YAY I KILL SOMEONE!!! But Goddanm it that fucking blood texture- FUCK.”

In summary, the only thing that’s holding me back from murder is the fact that blood feels weird when dried.

immediately showering and furiously washing the blood off my hands after stabbing someone, not because i feel any guilt or remorse for what i did but because i have sensory issues

[cult-vampire]

Peter Woodward as Macbeth and Nichola McAuliffe as Lady Macbeth at the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London, directed by William Gaunt in 1991.

Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The plot of Macbeth was acted out by the Muppets. Miss Piggy as Lady Macbeth is the best thing I have ever witnessed and the only thing I really remember from it.

[mrs-starkgaryen]

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P.s: I chose to do this poll cuz after r&j, hamlet, macbeth and midsummer's night's dream, I didnt study any of the others.

I was curious to see which one I should read first (as I want to expand my reading and I'm getting shakespeares works for christmas which I wanted after I went to see Tom Holland's r&j which blew me away and made appreciate shakey a lot more)

I'm sorry I failed you 'much ado about nothing' fans 😭

[bethanydelleman]

I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."

Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.

I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.

[thunderpot]

Macbeth moshang,

[aq2003]

david tennant + shakespeare

[transsexualcoriolanus]

"lady macbeth was manipulating macbeth because of her own ambition to be queen" "lady macbeth never really wanted to be queen she was only doing it because she loved her husband" no you don't understand she was doing it for them. at the beginning of the play the macbeths are a team, partners in greatness, one cannot exist without the other. she doesn't want power only for herself or only for him, she wants them to rule together, equally. that's why it's so devastating when she doesn't get that, when becoming king and queen only drives them apart, because she wanted them to be partners in greatness and she got the opposite.

[0tr45hm0uth]

Special request for my fav lil online bro hehe @kinartz

Extras

[writtebycamus]

From a Prince to a King: David Tennant in Shakespeare plays throughout the years

Hamlet (2009) // Macbeth (2023)

[ingravinoveritas]

Tonight is press night for Macbeth, and Michael is sitting in the second row beaming at David as proud as can be. The two of them looking at each other like that is everything...

[all-that-jazz-93]

The Scottish Play, but all the murders are carried out via Stabby the Roomba

[shouldtheydivorce]

Lawyer's notes:

Shout out to @cantheykillmacbeth

[emotinalsupportturtle]

..and he wrote them for David Tennant