Gitanjali Roy
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Gitanjali Roy is senior editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has over two decades of editorial experience across digital and broadcast media. She has a degree in Literature from the University of Delhi.
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Lady Macbeth, wife of the Scottish nobleman Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth, written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623. A strong, rational, and calculating woman, Lady Macbeth is determined to see her husband put aside his “milk of human kindness” to…
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