Shakespeare Shorts | Sanity and Insanity – Playing Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

Each programme in this series takes scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 5, Scenes 1, 3 and 5. The sleepwalking scene and Macbeth's lament on the death of his wife are compared with other versions of these scenes.

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Content
  • Type: Factual, Plays
  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Duration: 19'32''
  • Broadcast date: 1998
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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