This is the presentation-1 of sem-1. I present on Macbeth Movie adaptation.

1. Macbeth
Movie
Adaptation
By Nirali Dabhi

2. Introduction
Name: Nirali Dabhi
Roll number: 17
Enrollment Number: 4069206420220006
Sem: 1 M.A
Paper Code Number: 22392
Paper number: 101
Paper Name: Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods
Topic: Movie adaptation on Macbeth
Submitted to: Smt S.B. Gardi, Department of English, M.K.B.U
Email: niralidabhi95@gmail.com

3. Table of Contents
Original source:
Shakespeare’s
Macbeth
Comparison of
Macbeth and
Maqbool
Maqbool Movie
Brief Information
of Shakespeare

4. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
-Macbeth
❖ He is often called England’s national poet.
❖ He began a successful career in London as
an actor, writer, and part-owner of a
playing company called the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the
King’s Men.(Taylor)

5. Works of Shakespeare
❖ The Comedy of Errors (1592–1593)
❖ Titus Andronicus (1593–1594)
❖ The Taming of the Shrew (1593–1594)
❖ The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594–1595)
❖ Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594–1595)
❖ Romeo and Juliet (1594–1595)
❖ Julius Caesar (1599–1600)
❖ As You Like It (1599–1600)
❖ Twelfth Night (1599–1600)
❖ Hamlet (1600–1601)
❖ Othello (1604–1605)
❖ King Lear (1605–1606)

6. Original source: Shakespeare’s Macbeth
● Macbeth was written by Shakespeare between
1603 and 1606.
● It is the story of a murderer and usurper, like
Richard III or Claudius (Hamlet) from crime to
crime to achieve security.
● Macbeth is a villain but a more humanized
character compared to Richard.
● The character of Macbeth is interesting because
he is fully conscious of the horror of his deeds.
● The play is therefore more subtle since we find
the presence of evil in the virtuous and of good
in the wicked. It is not a manichean word: “our
life is a mingled yarn, good and evil together”
(Biscay)

7. Maqbool Movie
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. Take all my
femininity away and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of
direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, stop me from feeling pity so
that no natural feelings can get in the way.”
Movie Year: 2003
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
King: Abbaji Jahangir Khan
(Pankaj Kapur)
Lady Macbeth: Nimmi (Tabu)
Macbeth: Maqbool (Irfan Khan)
Witches: two corrupt cops (Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri)(Parulekar)

8. Comparison of Macbeth and Maqbool
❏ Macbeth is set in the Elizabethan
age displaying aristocracy of
Scotland.
❏ Macbeth met three Witch sisters
on his way back from a battle.
❏ Lady Macbeth is the lawful wife of
Macbeth.
❏ Maqbool on the other hand is set
in the backdrop of Mumbai
underworld.
❏ The witch sisters are replaced by
the corrupt inspectors in the film.
❏ Nimmi plays Jahangir’s mistress
and secretly has an affair with
Maqbool.
❏ Maqbool, the motive behind the murder was majorly romantic. The
love interest of Maqbool and Jahangir Khan was the same-Nimmi.
So the instigating factor here was to win the lady and
subsequently the empire.(Jha)

9. Work Cited
❏ Biscay, Matt. “Introduction to Macbeth.” SkyMinds, 21 September 2020,
https://www.skyminds.net/introduction-to-macbeth/. Accessed 12 October 2022.
❏ Jamieson, Lee. “A Complete List of Shakespeare's Plays.” ThoughtCo, 13 October
2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/list-of-shakespeare-plays-2985250. Accessed
12 October 2022.
❏ Jha, Noopur. “www.ijellh.com303William Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Vishal
Bharadwaj’s Maqbool:A case study on adaptations in contemporary Indian
Cinema.” 2016.

10. Work Cited
❏ Parulekar, Bhushan. “Maqbool by Bhushan Parulekar.” Boloji.com, 2004,
https://www.boloji.com/articles/1409/maqbool. Accessed 13 October 2022.
❏ Taylor, John. “William Shakespeare: Biography | English Literature I.” Lumen
Learning, 2016, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-britlit1/chapter/william-
shakespeare-biography/. Accessed 12 October 2022.

11. Thank you
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a
poor player, that struts and frets his
hour upon the stage, and then is
heard no more; it is a tale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.” -Macbeth