Harriet Walter contributes a hissingly vivid Lady Macbeth, Trevor Peacock a powerful Shylock.

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The most interesting female character in all of Shakespeare is Lady Macbeth.

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Edith Peers, who plays Gruoch, the Lady Macbeth character in the Scots language version, said her character's manipulation of her husband was something which attracted audiences.

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Although we view carrier customizations much in the way Lady Macbeth views her hands, Windows Phone brings a welcome change of pace, what with its staunch disavowal of OEM skinning.

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By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar.

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And Ms. Wright's performance as a modern-day Lady Macbeth in Netflix's "House of Cards" has garnered glowing reviews, not least because she is luminous as the monochrome-clad, cropped-haired Claire Underwood, wife to Kevin Spacey's politician Francis.

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Lady Macbeth trying to calm him down.

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