![]() Of all of his plays, Macbeth may best reflect Shakespeare's relationship with sovereign nobility. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare penned the play during the reign of James V1, who was a patron of the playwright's acting company. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt. His performances at Shakespeare’s Globe in London include Macbeth (2020), The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet (2021/22) Exhibition Shakespeare’s First Folio: The First Four Hundred Years Christie’s London 2- Get the best stories from in a weekly email We will never sell or rent your information. William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599-1606. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own doom. ![]() No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. ![]()
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