Dec 18, 2009

Macbeth | Macbeth

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Author: William Shakespeare
First Published: 1623
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: Eleventh century
Setting: Scotland
Genres: Drama, Tragedy
Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Murder or homicide, Guilt, Good and evil, Loyalty, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Ambition, Witches or witchcraft, Scotland or Scottish people, Middle Ages, Eleventh century
Locales: Scotland

Characters Discussed

Macbeth (mak-BEHTH), thane of Glamis, later thane of Cawdor and king of Scotland. A brave and successful military leader, and potentially a good and great man, he wins general admiration as well as the particular gratitude of King Duncan, his kinsman. Meeting the Three Weird Sisters, he succumbs to their tempting prophecies, but he also needs the urging of his wife to become a traitor, a murderer, and a usurper. He is gifted, or cursed, with a powerful and vivid imagination and with fiery, poetic language. Gaining power, he grows more ruthless, until...

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Macbeth | Macbeth

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