me and macbeth

I have this really strong connection with William Shakespeare's Macbeth...

It was one of the Shakespeare plays I studied in Year 11 English (and I think we watched the Polanski film version of it too)... and I've read Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters (which is incredibly loosely based on a combination of Macbeth and Hamlet) and seen the cartoon version.

But it means that I know the material... moreso than any other Shakespeare play... there are even chunks of it that are starting to become lodged in my memory and that I can more or less recite at will... not always perfectly, but well enough.

And it's something I keep wanting to go back to...

So this page details the versions I've seen so far and I'll add to it as I see new versions.

Plays
Movies/TV
  • Throne of Blood (1957)
    Toshirô Mifune as Taketoki Washizu
    Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa 
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
    Jon Finch as Macbeth
    Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth
    Directed by Roman Polanski
  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Macbeth (1992)
    Brian Cox as Macbeth
    Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Macbeth
    Directed by Nikolai Serebryakov and Dave Edwards
  • ShakespeaRe-Told - Macbeth (2005)
    James McAvoy as Joe Macbeth
    Keeley Hawes as Ella Macbeth
    Directed by Mark Brozel
  • Macbeth (2006)
    Sam Worthington as Macbeth
    Victoria Hill as Lady Macbeth
    Directed by Geoffrey Wright
  • Great Performances: Macbeth (2010)
    Patrick Stewart as Macbeth
    Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth
    Directed by Rupert Goold
Books
  • The original play (studied in Year 10 English)
  • Macbeth (Manga Shakespeare) by Robert Deas and Richard Appignanesi

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