Macbeth
About this book
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.
Subjects
- abbaye de saint-wandrille
- adaptations
- cartoons and comics
- children's plays, english
- classic literature
- comic and graphic books
- comic books, strips
- criticism and interpretation
- critique et interprétation
- drama
- drama inglés
- english drama
- english drama (tragedy)
- english literature
- english young adult drama
- fear
- fiction
- french-canadian dialect
- greed
- history
- history and criticism
- illustrations
- in literature
- juvenile drama
- kings
- kings and rulers
- kings and rulers in literature
- language
- literary criticism
- macbeth
- macbeth (shakespeare, william)
- murder of the king
- open_syllabus_project
- outlines, syllabi
- plays
- problems, exercises
- regicide
- regicides
- regicides in literature
- scotland
- sources
- stage history
- succession
- teatro inglés
- texts
- theatre royal (london)
- tragedia inglesa
- translations into italian
- wives pressuring
- young adult literature