Category: Macbeth

Thank you to Elizabeth E. Tavares for introducing Macbeth.

Links referenced in the video:

• Images from the Portland Center Stage production
• Great Performances film version of Macbeth
• Middleton’s “The Witch” images from the British Library

Elizabeth E. Tavares is Assistant Professor of English with the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Specializing in early English drama and Shakespeare, her scholarship and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Early Theatre, among others. Her current book project traces the formation of the repertory system in the 1580s English theatre industry. Find her online (elizabethetavares.com) and on Twitter (@ElizETavares).

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into Macbeth:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• A Lincoln Center production offers a great teacher resource guide—which offers good general information—for Macbeth.
• The Royal Shakespeare Company also offers great resources for Macbeth.
• Watch video synopses from Thug Notes or SparkNotes.
• Full productions on YouTube: a 1979 film version with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth, and the 1948 film version starring (and directed by) Orson Welles.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of Macbeth from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.