Red Space Rocket

In class today we were talking very briefly about the “real” Macbeth movie.

Wikipedia lists fifteen movies of Macbeth ranging from cartoons to Japanese warriors. The first was made in 1908 and the most recent, film in Melbourne of all places, in 2006. The list is worth reading just to get a sense of the many ways this story can work. They also list a further seven versions created for television (including the Shakespeare Retold version we are working with at the moment). To this list you can add the ten musical adaptations.

A simple search on the Internet Movie Database for Macbeth shows 48 filmed works called Macbeth.

You might hope that the text itself was the one true Macbeth. Unfortunately there is widespread belief that some of the currently published play was not written by Shakespeare himself.

I guess my point is that the search for the “real” Macbeth is not as easy as it looks.