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Quiz: Shakespeare's Macbeth? Or William Davenant's 17th-century adaptation?

Ian Peakes and Kate Eastwood Norris as the tragically ambitious Macbeths. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.
Ian Peakes and Kate Eastwood Norris as the tragically ambitious Macbeths. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.

Take this quiz to see if you can identify lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth or the Restoration-era version as adapted and amended by Sir William Davenant.

See Davenant’s adaptation onstage at Folger Theatre, with period music performed by Folger Consort, September 4-23.

Comments

First Folio :
All. The weyward Sisters, hand in hand hand,
Posters of the Sea and Land,

Jerry — September 5, 2018

I got turned on to Shakespeare roughly 75 years ago, at the age of 14, and while I spent my academic career (mostly SUNY Binghamton, with stints at Pitt, NYU, Brooklyn College) divided between Milton and the moderns, Shakespeare has been with me throughout and continues to be — I teach courses in Shakespeare for curious elders at our wonderful College for Seniors in Asheville NC>

MARIO DICESARE — September 5, 2018