The Scottish Play (Lee Blessing play)

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 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
Characters	Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Macduff King Duncan Malcolm Donalbain Three Witches Fleance Lady Macduff Macduff's son Third Murderer Young Siward
Inspirations	Macbeth, King of Scotland Gruoch of Scotland Duncan I of Scotland Malcolm III of Scotland Donald III of Scotland Siward, Earl of Northumbria King James VI and I
Sources	Daemonologie (1597) The Witch (play) Holinshed's Chronicles Darraðarljóð
Film	1908 1909 (French) 1909 (Italian) 1911 1913 1915 1916 1922 1948 1971 2006 2015 Cancelled (Olivier)
Television	1954 1960 US TV 1960 Australian TV 1961 1979 1982 1983 1992 2005 2010
TV / film adaptations	The Real Thing at Last (1916) Marmayogi (1951) Joe MacBeth (1955) Throne of Blood (1957) Macbeth (Verdi opera) (1987) Men of Respect (1990) Scotland, PA (2001) Makibefo (2001) Maqbool (2003) Shakespeare Must Die (2012) Veeram (2016)
Plays	Voodoo Macbeth (1936) MacBird! (1967) uMabatha (1970) Macbett (1972) Cahoot's Macbeth (1979) MacHomer (1995) Sleep No More (2003) Sleep No More (2009) Dunsinane (2010) Sleep No More (2011) Just Macbeth!
Operas	Macbeth (1847, Verdi) discography Macbeth (1910, Bloch)
Literary adaptations	Wyrd Sisters (1988) The Last King of Scotland (1998) The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II (2008)
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) Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)
Scenes and speeches	"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1823) Sleepwalking Scene (5.1) "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"
Words and phrases	"What's done is done" "Crack of doom" "The good doctor" "Strange but true" The Scottish Play Thane of Cawdor
Story within a story	We Work Again Light Thickens The Deadly Affair "The Movies" "Sleeping with the Enemy" "The Shower Principle" Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine The Scottish Play Burke & Hare
Episodes	"A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959, Looney Tunes) "The Bellero Shield" (1964, The Outer Limits) "Sense and Senility" (1987, Blackadder the Third) "The Coup" (2006, The Office) "Dial "N" for Nerder" (2008, The Simpsons) "Four Great Women and a Manicure" (2009, The Simpsons) "The Understudy" (2014, Inside No. 9)
Other	Macbeth (Strauss) The Scottish Play Piano Trios, Op. 70 (Beethoven) The Ruins of Cawdor House of Cards (UK, 1990) House of Cards (US, 2013–present)

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