` Known as the" Comedy of Glams", "that play", "Scottish business", "the nameless play", or just "unmentionable", the play macbeth continues to have a curse surrounding its name and performance. Macbeth is an incredibly dark drama, full of witchcraft, ghosts, bloodshed and murder. First performed for king james in 1606, Shakespeare used an actual wiccen black magic in the opening act. some say this offended those capable of using real magic and , in spite, they cast an eternal curse upon the play. This is the possible reasoning behind the curse of macbeth and for the plays "unmitigated disaster" throughout the 400 years it has been preformed.
             The showing of the play macbeth always resulted in trouble, some mishaps happen to result in death while others are far less trouble. The first performance of macbeth proved to be lethal one. On August 7th 1606, Hal Berrage, the boy actor playing lady macbeth died of a high fever, forcing shakespeare himself to stand in for the part. The bloody play outraged the king and thus it was outlawed for five years. Later preformed in 1662, an actor during one of the performances substituted an actual dagger for a fake one, killing another performer. Centuries later the play was again preformed in Britain. Here riots and uproars occurred against the police killing 22 people and injuring over 30 others. This was a truly catastrophic event surely brought about by the curse of Macbeth. THe most significant and remembered death brought around by the Mccbeth curse was the death of civil war president Abraham Lincoln. He was reading a passage from the play in which king duncan is murdered only five days prior to his assassination by john Wilks booth. Other mysterious deaths brought by the curse are the death of a proprietor of a macbeth play in the 20th century. In another even, a sword brought on stage broke apart and was shot into the audience. This caused a man in the audience to die of a massive hear...