Macbeth Resources

Macbeth Resources

Here are several extra resources which may help you to better understand the play.  They are optional, but highly recommended.  

Begin by watching this 9 minute summary of the play; it will help you make sense of the scenes if you have this plot-sketch in your mind first.

There are many film adaptations of Macbeth, and the 2015 version with Michael Fassbender is particularly faithful to the play; you will probably enjoy it best, if you find access to it (It is not on Netflix, it is on Prime Vide, Shaw on Demand).  There is a 1979 Version starring Ian McKellen (Gandalf) which might interest you, found on youtube.

Here is the first scene in the1971 Film version of the Play.

Here is the entire Play enacted in a forest:

Read about the history of the curse of the Scottish play: http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2000-10-13/78882/

The Authorship Debate:  Who wrote the plays?http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/discover-shakespeare/