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The Scottish Play is a play by American playwright Lee Blessing. It is set at a Shakespeare festival in Bannockburn, Michigan and examines the history of the Scottish Play curse associated with theater workers and performers pronouncing the name Macbeth.^[1]

^ Stevens, Rob (28 September 2005). "The Scottish Play". TheaterManian.com. Retrieved 5 July 2011.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Inspirations

Sources

Television

TV / film adaptations

The Real Thing at Last (1916)
Marmayogi (1951)
Joe MacBeth (1955)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Marmayogi (1964)
Macbeth (Verdi opera) (1987)
Men of Respect (1990)
Scotland, PA (2001)
Makibefo (2001)
Maqbool (2003)
2005
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Shakespeare Must Die (2012)
Thane of East County (2015)
Veeram (2016)
Joji (2021)

Plays

Khwab-e-Hasti (1909)
Voodoo Macbeth (1936)
MacBird! (1967)
uMabatha (1970)
Macbett (1972)
Cahoot's Macbeth (1979)
MacHomer (1995)
Just Macbeth! (2008)
Sleep No More (2009)
Dunsinane (2010)
Sleep No More (2011)

Operas

Macbeth (1847, Verdi)
- discography
Macbeth (1910, Bloch)

Literary adaptations

Wyrd Sisters (1988)
The Last King of Scotland (1998)
Macbeth (2018)

Albums

Music from Macbeth (1972)
Macbeth (1990)
Thane to the Throne (2000)
Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel (2003)
Lady Macbeth (2005)

Art

Pity (1795)
The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795)
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers (1812 painting)
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)
Lady Macbeth (1905 sculpture)

Scenes and speeches

Words and phrases

In popular culture

Novels, film and theatre

Television

"A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959, Looney Tunes)
"The Bellero Shield" (1964, The Outer Limits)
"The Movies" (1975, The Goodies)
"Sense and Senility" (1987, Blackadder the Third)
"Sleeping with the Enemy" (2004, The Simpsons)
"The Coup" (2006, The Office)
"Dial 'N' for Nerder" (2008, The Simpsons)
"Four Great Women and a Manicure" (2009, The Simpsons)
"The Shower Principle" (2012, 30 Rock)
"The Understudy" (2014, Inside No. 9)

Other

Macbeth (Johann Strauss)
The Scottish Play
Piano Trios, Op. 70 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The Ruins of Cawdor
House of Cards (UK, 1990)
House of Cards (US, 2013–2018)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)

Categories