Macbeth is a Shakespearean comedy.
" Lastly, both plays contain powerful and manipulative female figures: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth
The critical consensus is that there have been three great Macbeths on the English-speaking stage in the 20th century, all of them commencing at Stratford-upon-Avon: Laurence Olivier in 1955, Ian McKellen in 1976 and Antony Sher in 1999

