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Jacob Jacobsz de Wet II (Haarlem 1641-2 - Amsterdam 1697) - Macbeth, King of Scotland (1043-60) - RCIN 403309 - Royal Collection
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Macbeth, King of Scotland
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John Hall
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Macbeth, king of Scots
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麦克白

麥克白
Màikèbái
proper noun #20,863

Meanings

  1. 1 Macbeth (name)
  2. 2 Macbeth, the Scottish king
  3. 3 Macbeth, the Shakespeare tragedy

About Macbeth

c. 1005–1057 · 君主 monarch

King of Scotland from 1040 to 1057. Chinese readers know him as the title character of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, a general driven by a witches' prophecy and his wife's ambition to murder his way to the throne.

Also called  马克白

Examples

HSK 6
《 Màikèbái 》 shì Shāshìbǐyà zuì zhùmíng de bēijù zhīyī.
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.
HSK 7-9
Màikèbái yīn yěxīn ér zǒuxiàng huǐmiè.
Macbeth was driven to ruin by ambition.

In Pop Culture

《麦克白》 《 Màikèbái 》
Macbeth (1606)
A tragedy by William Shakespeare (莎士比亚) written around 1606. Scottish general Macbeth, spurred by a prophecy and his wife, murders King Duncan to seize the throne and is ultimately destroyed by his own ambition.

Stroke Order

麦 mài
克 kè
白 bái