her sleepwalking on the eve of her marriage to another man, falls in love with her and carries her off. The play mentions her claim to the throne. She appears, named Groa, as a major character in Dorothy Dunnett's 1982 novel of Macbeth, King Hereafter, which topped the New York Times bestseller list. Gruoch appeared in Nigel Tranter's MacBeth the King as Macbeth's co-ruler and a major character. Gruoch appears in the 1990s TV series Gargoyles. She is seen in flashbacks pertaining to Macbeth, who is a recurring antagonist in the series. This version of Gruoch is based on the historical figure and bears little resemblance to the literary Lady Macbeth. Susan Fraser King wrote Lady Macbeth, a 1982 historical novel about Gruoch, whose name she spelt as Gruadh. King asserts that the book is as deeply rooted in fact as possible. Gruadh also appeared in another Susan Fraser King novel, Queen Hereafter, about Margaret of Wessex and a fictional illegitimate daughter of King Lulach. Gruoch also appears as the wife of Macbeth, King of Scotland and the mother of Lulach in Jackie French's children's novel Macbeth and Son, published in 2006. Gloria Carreño's 2009 play A Season Before the Tragedy of Macbeth premiered by British Touring Shakespeare 2010, also sheds new light on Gruach Macduff, the central character. The play considers events up to the opening of the letter from the three witches in Shakespeare's tragedy. In David Greig's 2010 play Dunsinane, she is known as Gruach and outlives Macbeth. Notes References Annals of Ulster (translation ) at University College Cork's CELT project. Duncan, A. A. M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. Woolf, Alex, "Macbeth" in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Oxford UP, Oxford, 2001. Playwright Gloria Carreño Une Saison Avant La Tragédie de Macbeth, by Gloria Carreño. Les Editions Persée, 2010. . 11th-century births 11th-century deaths Scottish royal consorts House of Moray Moray 11th-century Scottish women 11th-century Scottish people Remarried royal consorts Queen mothers