What is Lady Macbeth?
[[File:Lady Macbeth Cattermole.jpg|thumb|right|Lady Macbeth at the bedside of King Duncan (''Lady Macbeth'' by George Cattermole, 1850)]] '''Lady Macbeth''' is a [[fiction]]al character in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Macbeth]]'' (c.1603–1607). She is the wife to the play's main character, [[Macbeth (character)|Macbeth]], a [[Scotland|Scottish]] nobleman. After talking him into killing the king, she becomes [[Queen of Scotland]]. Later, she feels bad about her part in the crime and falls [[sleepwalking]]. She dies off-stage in the last act. This is thought to be [[suicide]]. The idea for the character came from Kings Duff and Duncan in ''[[Holinshed's Chronicles]]'' (1587), a history of [[Great Britain|Britain]] familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth appears to be made up of two personalities in Holinshed's work. These are Donwald's nagging, murderous wife in the account of King Duff and Macbeth's ambitious wife in the account of King Duncan. ==More information== * [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/11556 Lady MacBeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria] * [http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=SE.014.0309A Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work] * [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2868376 Women's Fantasy of Manhood: A Shakespearian Theme] ==Related pages== *''[[Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District]]'' - opera by [[Dmitry Shostakovich]] ==Other websites== * [http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Mac/F1/Work ''Macbeth:'' Folio Version] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114071733/http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Mac/F1/Work |date=2009-01-14 }} * [http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html ''Macbeth:'' Full-text online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426072625/http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html |date=2011-04-26 }} * [http://shakespeare-navigators.com/macbeth/Ladym.html List of all appearances and all mentions of Lady Macbeth in the play.] {{DEFAULTSORT:Macbeth, Lady}} [[Category:Characters in Shakespeare's plays]]