Macbeth
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches. Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the…
Macbeth
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches. Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is. —Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu> A leader in the victorious army of the King of Scotland, Macbeth, has his ambition piqued when three witches prophesy that he will Thane of Cawdor and king. When the former comes true he believes it is his destiny to be king and sets out to achieve this. —grantss
Macbeth
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A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches. Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is.
—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu> A leader in the victorious army of the King of Scotland, Macbeth, has his ambition piqued when three witches prophesy that he will Thane of Cawdor and king. When the former comes true he believes it is his destiny to be king and sets out to achieve this. —grantss.