Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. At the start of the play, Banquo is Macbeth’s friend and is also a general in King Duncan’s army.

Of course Macbeth is a Coen brothers movie. The Scottish play is essentially a caper: A criminal plot is hatched and executed, kind of like in Raising Arizona or Fargo. As in The Ladykillers — ...

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Funny how fate goes. You can miss immortality by a hair. Maybe that already happened to you, sucker. Consider. Had it been Lord Banquo who personally encountered the treacherous Macdonwald on the ...

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In Act 3, scene 4, Macbeth causes chaos at a celebratory banquet at his castle when he suddenly starts to behave very oddly indeed. Everything starts quite normally. The guests are greeted and they ...

The cast of characters in Macbeth is not particularly large but each has an important part to play in the unfolding drama. Many of the characters are from the Scottish ruling class. Other characters ...

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