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Macbeth
also: Макбет
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scottish king driven to murder by ambition and prophecy; a celebrated set-piece for touring tragedians of the Baron's era.
Reading notes
- The Baron §1 Macbeth
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scottish king driven to murder by ambition and prophecy; the witches' scene invoked here was a celebrated set-piece for touring tragedians like Rossi.
- To A. I. Sumbatov, 14 December 1889. Moscow. §3 "Macbeth"
Shakespeare's tragedy, evidently in a recent production that had put Moscow theatergoing audiences in a "Shakespearean" frame of mind -- compare Sumbatov's own staging of "Macbeth" for his benefit performance discussed elsewhere in this correspondence, which is likely the very production Chekhov has in mind here.
- To A. I. Sumbatov, 27–28 December 1889. Moscow. §2 three Macbeth-ish little books
Unidentified small publications or pamphlets related to Shakespeare's "Macbeth," just received from Suvorin. The exact items are not named or otherwise described in the letter. Likely connected to Sumbatov's staging of "Macbeth" for his benefit performance at the Maly Theatre, a production discussed earlier in this same correspondence, where Sumbatov had asked Suvorin for books or articles worth consulting on the play. Precise identification of the three items is not resolved from this letter alone; flagged here per the translator's note as an open point for further apparatus research rather than a settled fact.