Publication

1999 - ©2015, [USA], No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

16,854 words, Calculated

Page Count

119 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR2823 .A1 2015
  • DDC822.3/3
  • LCCPR2878.M3 L4 1753a
and 7 more
  • LCCMLCS 81/0525
  • LCCPR2878.M3 C3 1673a
  • LCCPR2878.M3 D3 1674a
  • LCCPR2779.M3 G3
  • LCCPR2779M3 G3
  • LCCPR2796.N42 M33
  • LCCPR2823 .A25 1986

Description

The play concerns a trusted general who secretly lusts for power. Encouraged by the prophecies of three witches and urged on by his ambitious wife Macbeth commits regicide. Left fearful and superstitious by this desperate act he is driven to a spiralling course of murder and outrage, almost inevitably culminating in his own death. One of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedies, Macbeth is ostensibly based on the Scottish king although the story represented in the play bears no relation to historical fact as the true King Macbeth was well respected by his contemporaries. This book includes the hero Macbeth becoming more and more evil after he gets told his "destiny" by the witches and becomes greedy with power.

First Sentence

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Subjects

Topics

TodArtfearDramaTextsYouthPlays

Places

People

MacbethG. K. HunterBaron MacBethlLady MacBethWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)Israel Gollancz Sir (1864-1930)George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941)

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