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* ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' from ''[[Discworld]]'', which references and parodies Macbeth throughout and opens with a spoof of the famous witches' cauldron scene in which the response to "When shall we three meet again?" is "Well, I can do next Tuesday."
* The Weird Sisters, three witches who form a rock band in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', are [[Shout-Out|named after]] the nickname given to the three witches in Act 1 of Macbeth.
* Another of the more famous lines, "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" (from the same monologue that named [[Eye of Newt]], was also the name of an ''early'' (by which we mean ''[[Full House]]''-era) [[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen|Olsen Twins]] movie.
* One of several Shakespeare plays adapted into a [[Graphic Novel]] recently{{when}}. Available in original Shakespearean, modern text, and a paraphrased version.
* ''Mac Homer'', Rick Miller's one-man show, which casts ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' characters in the roles. While largely following the play's basic story, many liberties, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|fourth wall breaks]] and [[Lampshaded|lampshades]] unsurprisingly occur for comedic effect.
* A 2006 Australian film starring Sam Worthington, with a [[Setting Update]] to the [[Underbelly|Melbourne ganglands]]. It sticks to the play fairly well, but adds a few silent scenes, and suggests that Lady Macbeth acted out of grief of a dead child. And she's also a cocaine addict.
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* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]
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* [[Age Lift]]: When Patrick Stewart played the role recently{{when}}, the portrayal of the character was changed into that of an aging general with a young trophy wife, rather than the vigorous thirty-something (sometimes forty-something) warrior he is portrayed as in most film and stage productions of the last century.
* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: One of the witches has a cat named Greymalkin.
* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Banquo is unsure what gender the three witches are. They were originally played by men pretending to be women, so his line that they have beards is likely an inside joke. In the recent{{when}} Globe version, this caused the actors to do a rather hilarious double take.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: At least if you have to murder your king for it. What's especially sad is that Macbeth had already gained enormous prestige and rewards for his heroism in putting down the rebellion and invasion from Norway, and the high esteem he was held in by Duncan would have given him tremendous influence even if the king had stayed alive and passed the throne on to Malcolm. At that period in Scottish history the kingship was more adoptive than hereditary (indeed, Duncan was the first ever king to succeed his own father) and Macbeth, as a successful general and a lord in his own right, had every reason to suppose that he might be tapped as next in line to the throne (this is the back-story to the part about "if chance will have me king, then chance may crown me" and the reason he is so shocked when Duncan names his son Malcolm as Prince of Cumberland, i.e. heir to the throne). In real life, Macbeth drew his support from the more conservative element in the Scots ruling class, who were horrified at the thought that supreme power might become a monopoly of one family. In that sense, he might be seen as the [[Darker and Edgier]] version of Brutus in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar''.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Witches can predict the future and cast spells, dead men can come back as ghosts, apparitions can rise from cauldrons... but trees can't move. That would be silly.
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