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The best Macbeths to watch online

Lloyd Evans is dazzled by Rupert Goold’s 2010 production, Orson Welles’s 1948 film and a 1979 treasure that languishes in the BBC archives

A truly noble and heroic thane: Orson Welles in his 1948 version of Macbeth. [Moviestore/Shutterstock]

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