It took 1,000 beetles to make one of the most celebrated dresses of the 1880s. Audiences gasped when Ellen Terry made her entrance as Lady Macbeth, her costume shimmering with the sheeny wings of ...

Lady Macbeth:Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? From this time such I account thy love.