Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacBeth, Act IV, Scene...
Elizabeth, Duchess of York, who was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,* third and youngest daughter of the Earl & Countess of Strathmore and Kingshorne, lay in turreted Glamis castle last week, where according to tradition and Shakespeare, MacBeth did murder Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain...
Among the coins of the post-conquest period before 1272 is one of Prince Henry, Earl of Northumberland. He was the son of David I and great grandson of the Duncan who has a prominent part in Shakespeare's tragedy, "Macbeth...
...Brewster Morgan, of Kansas City, Kans., acquired great kudos for his Oxford production of Macbeth, and for other brainy feats (TIME...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...