Creepy Classics-The ghostly goings on behind the scenes of Macbeth & the Austen families scandalous guest

Have you ever wondered why actors go to extreme lenghts to avoid saying MacBeth? Mused over where Jane Austen gained her love of the gothic? 

Halloween is the spook tac u lar ah ah time to tell tales of what put the Shakey in Shakespeare and the Jitter in Jane Austen with these frightening facts about our creepy classics! 

If you are passing a theatre and a gaggle of screaming actors run off stage from a production of Macbeth spitting and turning around,, they haven't been possessed by a ghost, or have they...?! 

Macbeth was besieged by horrific happenings on the scary stage.💀

💀 Just before the opening night of the first production of Macbeth in 1606 legend has it that the actor playing Lady Macbeth fell ill and died, leaving Shakespeare ringing his hands on and off stage as, at the last moment, he had to take on the role of Lady Macbeth. 💀

 👻Other incidents occurred as during another production of The Scottish Play the tip of a knife flew off into audience causing more than an attack of the vapors to the audience!👻

👀Duncan was once again doomed in the 17th century when a prop was replaced with a real dagger killing the leading man live  on stage! 

💀During Olivier dalliance with Duncan a stage weight fell narrowly missing the actor.

👀If you think The Scottish Play is full of fierce fighting, the actors have nothing on the audience! Fights have erupted among the theatre goers on everything from general crowd chaos to the cast choices! These fearsome fights have broken out in the 17 hundreds and again in 1849 leaving a trail of injuries and even fatalities in the plays wake.   

👀Ever wondered what prompted Jane Austen's fascination with the frightening? From the early terrifying tales of her youth, through to the Gothic Northanger Abbey, it wasn't only fiction that opened the authors eyes to sinister society👀

❤The Austen family had a family member descend upon their family home. Eliza de Feuillide became a friend of young Jane, later to marry Jane's brother Henry and become a sister to Jane, all things even Fanny Price would approve of i hear you cry? Except Eliza, fresh from the society whirl of France, arrived as a recent widow, but it was not a putrid throat that brought about the demise of Eliza's husband, Jean-Francois de Feuillide, but the sharp stab of the ghastly guillotine! Eliza's arrival into young Jane's life must have opened the authors eyes! 👀o 

❤Like her heroines, Jane must have engaged in candlelight  conversations with her cousin, only these conversations ended with a hero losing more than his heart❤

Reference 

• R.S.C 'The curse of the Scottish play' 

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