Lady Macduff is a character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. She is married to Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife. Her appearance in the play is brief: she and her son are introduced in Act IV Scene II,
Peggy Webber (right) as Lady Macduff in Orson Welles' film adaptation Macbeth (1948 film)
Act 5, Scene 1, better known as the sleepwalking scene, is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. It deals with the guilt and madness experienced by Lady Macbeth, on
Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking by Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1784. (Musée du Louvre)