Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1606/00/00 | William Shakespeare | Playwright | "Macbeth" is first performed, about 1606 | ||||
1623/00/00 | "Macbeth" is published, about 1623 | ||||||
1809/09/18 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Architect | Designed by the Robert Smirke the New Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent-Garden opens with a production of Shakespeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. The building cost 150,000 pounds sterling to build. | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | London | ||
1863/08/17 | Abraham Lincoln | Life | Some of Shakespeare's plays I have never read, whilst others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are Lear, Richard Third, Henry Eighth, Hamlet, and especially Macbeth. I think nothing equals Macbeth. - AL |
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