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Actor peeking through theatre curtains

Toil and Trouble: The Curse of Macbeth

Source: Skeptoid

Actors have long avoided saying the title of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy inside theaters in fear of the famed “curse of Macbeth.” What’s the evidence for such a curse, though?

This entry was posted in Absolute Power and tagged Arts & Entertainment on May 1, 2016 by Mikki Gibson.

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