What leading character in one of William Shakespeare's tragedy's becomes Queen of Scotland and was played by Alison Peebles in 1993?
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Alison Peebles Alison Peebles (born 1953) is an award-winning Scottish actress, director, and writer in theatre, film, and television. She is a co-founder of Communicado, a multiple award-winning Scottish theater company. Peebles is noted for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth in Michael Boyd’s celebrated 1993 production of "Macbeth" at The Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" (c.1603–1607). The wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Later, however, she suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime, which drives her to sleepwalk. She dies off-stage in the last act, an apparent suicide.
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The Great McGonagall (film) The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan in the title role, Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria and Julia Foster as Mrs McGonagall. It is a humorous biopic of the Scottish poet William McGonagall that includes several of McGonagall's actual poems, his appearing in the title role of "Macbeth" and his "improvement" of the Bard's plot, his pilgrimage to Balmoral Castle, the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick McLean and a tribute to McGonagall from Lt Frederick Rollo of the Royal Scots in Zululand.
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The Maid's Revenge The Maid's Revenge is an early Caroline era stage the play, the earliest extant tragedy by James Shirley. It was first published in 1639.
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Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify "Cymbeline" as a romance or even a comedy. Like "Othello" and "The Winter's Tale", it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611.
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The Queen (play) The Queen, or The Excellency of Her Sex is a Caroline era tragicomedy. Though published anonymously in 1653, The play is now generally attributed to John Ford — making it a significant addition to the very limited canon of Ford's works.
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The Arcadia (play) The Arcadia is James Shirley's dramatization of the prose romance, "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney — one expression of the enormous influence that Sidney's work exercised during the 17th century. Shirley's stage version was first published in 1640.
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Alex Kingston Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston (born 11 March 1963) is an English actress, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and America in the 1990s, including her portrayal of the title role in the British miniseries "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders" (1996) and her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama "ER" (1997–2004).
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The Heartbreak Kid (1993 film) The Heartbreak Kid is a 1993 Australian film starring Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades, which was based on a play of the same name by Richard Barrett and first performed by Griffin Theatre Company. It was later spun off into the television series "Heartbreak High".
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Maev Alexander Maev Alexander, also Maeve Alexander (born Maev Alexandra Reid McConnell on 3 February 1948) is a Scottish television and stage actress. Aside from her numerous stage appearances including Cleopatra and in "The Mousetrap" at the St Martin's Theatre in London, she is perhaps best known for playing the assistant Christine Russell in the early 1970s Scottish TV series "Sutherland's Law", as Janet Campbell in the 18th century set "The New Road", and as WPC Sandra Williams in the British police drama "The Gentle Touch" (1981-2). She is married to Simon Dunmore, a notable theatre director and author on acting.
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Macduff's son Macduff's son is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" (1606). His name and age are not established in the text, however he is estimated to be 7–10 years of age, and is often named as Andrew, for ease. He follows Shakespeare's typical child character; cute and clever. While Lady Macduff and her children are mentioned in "Holinshed's Chronicle" as the innocent victims of Macbeth's cruelty, Shakespeare is completely responsible for developing Macduff's son as a character.
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Young Siward Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth" (1606). He is the son of Siward, general of the English forces in the battle against Macbeth. Macbeth kills him in the final battle, shortly before his swordfight with Lord Macduff.
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Titania Titania is a character in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play "[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]". In the play, she is the [[Fairy Queen|queen of the fairies]]. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.
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Alexander Worple Alexander Worple is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a choleric Manhattan millionaire as well as a businessman in the jute business. In the 1990s television series "Jeeves and Wooster" he is portrayed by Bill Bailey .
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Macbeth Macbeth ( ; full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, "Macbeth" most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Double, Double, Toil and Trouble is a 1993 Halloween made-for-television children's film. It stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as two adventurous little girls who discover that their Great Aunt Sophia has been trapped and cursed by her evil twin sister Agatha. On the 7th year of her imprisonment, Sophia will be doomed to the netherworld unless the curse is broken by the magical spell of twins. The film's title is part of the famous line spoken by the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act IV, Scene I): "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
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William Patterson Dunlop William Patterson Dunlop (1951–2009) was a Canadian actor best known to the general public through his roles in "" 1993-97, "Due South" 1994 and "Tommy Boy" 1995. But the majority of his career was spent on the stage, particularly at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
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The True Tragedy of Richard III The True Tragedy of Richard III is an anonymous Elizabethan history play on the subject of Richard III of England. It has attracted the attention of scholars of English Renaissance drama principally for the question of its relationship with Shakespeare's "Richard III".
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King's Men (playing company) The King's Men was the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career. Formerly known as The Lord Chamberlain's Men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, they became The King's Men in 1603 when King James I ascended the throne and became the company's patron.
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Richard II (play) King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: "Henry IV, Part 1"; "Henry IV, Part 2"; and "Henry V".
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The Maiden Queen Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen is a 1667 tragicomedy written by John Dryden. The play, commonly known by its more distinctive subtitle, was acted by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (which had escaped the Great Fire of London the year before). The premiere occurred on 2 March, and was a popular success. King Charles II, his brother the Duke of York and future King James II, and Samuel Pepys were all in the audience on opening night.
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Me and Veronica Me and Veronica is a 1993 American comedy drama film starring Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig and Michael O'Keefe.