Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. At the start of the play, Banquo is Macbeth’s friend and is also a general in King Duncan’s ...

It has been commonly thought that Shakespeare put Banquo in the play as a contrast to Macbeth, who murdered the King to seize the throne, and then an innocent man to cover up his crime. Banquo’s ghost ...

Later, at a banquet, Macbeth thinks he can see Banquo’s blood-covered ghost sitting in his place at the table. He shouts at the ghost, which is invisible to everyone else.

In William Shakespeare’s famous play, Macbeth is distressed by the appearance of Banquo’s ghost at a banquet for Scottish Thanes. This image played in my mind as a non-partisan panelist during ...

Macbeth and Banquo, at the very start of the play, are represented as one and the same, two sides of the same coin, who share a brotherhood that is simultaneously admirable and deadly.