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)
King Duncan is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is the father of two youthful sons, and the victim of a well-plotted regicide in a power grab by his first cousin, and trusted captain
Lady Macbeth at the bedside of King Duncan (Lady Macbeth by George Cattermole, 1850)