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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29 (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, romanized: Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda, lit. 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District') is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto, jointly written by Alexander Preys and the composer, is based on the novella Lady ...
Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ( c. 1603–1607 ). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Some regard her as becoming more powerful than Macbeth when she does ...
The sleepwalking scene is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare 's tragedy Macbeth (1606). Carrying a taper (candlestick), Lady Macbeth enters sleepwalking. The Doctor and the Gentlewoman stand aside to observe. The Doctor asks how Lady Macbeth came to have the light. The Gentlewoman replies she has ordered a light be beside ...
Commentators who are dismissive of De Quincey's literary criticism in general make an exception for his essay on Macbeth. [4] The essay concerns Act II, scene three in The Tragedy of Macbeth, in which the murder of King Duncan by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is succeeded by Macduff and Lennox knocking at the gate of the castle. The knocking ends ...
What's done is done. " What's done is done " is an idiom in English, usually meaning something along the line of: the consequence of a situation is now out of your control, that is, "there's no changing the past, so learn from it and move on." The expression uses the word "done" in the sense of "finished" or "settled", a usage which dates back ...
Sleep No More is the New York City production of an immersive theatre work created by the British theatre company Punchdrunk. It is primarily based on William Shakespeare 's Macbeth, with inspiration also taken from noir films (especially those of Alfred Hitchcock ), as well as some reference to the 1697 Paisley witch trials.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda) is an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov. It was originally published in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's magazine Epoch . Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society, adultery ...
The Scottish Play. A 1972 book cover for a Galician printing of Macbeth. Theatrical superstition holds that speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will lead to a curse. The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare 's Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to ...