The Scottish Play
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The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, and the second is a reference to Shakespeare's p
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.
Macbeth (2010 film)
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Macbeth is a 2010 television film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was broadcast on BBC Four on 12 December 2010. In the United States, it aired on PBS' Great Performances.
The Scottish Play
…striking him and the "MAC" falling from the signage (leaving the "BETH"). Patrick Stewart, on the radio program Ask Me Another, asserted that "if you have played the role of the Scottish thane, then you are allowed to say the title, any time anywhere." English actor Harold Norman, playing Macbeth, was mortally wounded…
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Patrick Stewart at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards