by Susan Fraser King. The novel is original fiction, based on source material regarding the period and person of Lady Macbeth. Julia Gillard was compared to Lady Macbeth after she ousted Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia in June 2010. The most often cited parallels between Gillard and Lady Macbeth were that Gillard was a red-haired and 'deliberately barren' woman, while the event itself occurred late in the evening, much like King Duncan's murder. Additionally, the perpetrator succeeded the victim, Julia Gillard became the Prime Minister after "killing" Kevin Rudd's career while the Macbeths were proclaimed King and Queen after King Duncan's death. Additional parallels to the play Macbeth, more broadly, include the fact that Gillard was labelled a witch, was the recipient of misogynistic attitudes, and Gillard's statement to Senator Kim Carr that the Labor Government was sleepwalking to defeat. Many have compared Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the wife of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman to Lady Macbeth. See also What's done is done References Further reading Lady MacBeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work Women's Fantasy of Manhood: A Shakespearian Theme - Posted on the website of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District External links Macbeth: Folio Version Macbeth: Full-text online List of all appearances and all mentions of Lady Macbeth in the play. Female Shakespearean characters Fictional queens Fictional lords and ladies Fictional characters based on real people Characters in Macbeth Fictional Scottish people Fictional suicides Literary characters introduced in 1603 Female literary villains Female characters in literature Fictional regicides Shakespeare villains