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1. www.britannica.com › topic › Macbeth-by-ShakespeareMacbeth | Summary, Characters, & Facts | Britannica

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   Sep 17, 2024 · Macbeth, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a playbook or a transcript of one. Some portions of the original text are corrupted or missing from the published edition. The play is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, without diversions or subplots.

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   Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. It is short: more than a thousand lines shorter than Othello and King Lear, and only slightly more than half as long as Hamlet. This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance. This would ...

4. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesShakespeare’s Macbeth plot summary - Macbeth - BBC

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   Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman. Find out more with Bitesize. For key stage 3 students.

5. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › macbethMacbeth: William Shakespeare & Macbeth Background - SparkNotes

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   Shakespeares works were collected and printed in various editions in the century following his death, and by the early eighteenth century his reputation as the greatest poet ever to write in English was well established. The unprecedented admiration garnered by his works led to a fierce curiosity about Shakespeares life, but the dearth of biographi...

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   Shakespeares shortest and bloodiest tragedy, Macbeth tells the story of a brave Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophecy from a trio of sinister witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed with ambitious thoughts and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for himself. He begins ...

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   Macbeth was most likely written in 1606, early in the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. James was a patron of Shakespeares acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote under Jamess reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwrights close relationship with the sovereign...

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   Macbeth is not Shakespeares most complex play, but it is certainly one of his most powerful and emotionally intense. Whereas Shakespeares other major tragedies, such as Hamlet and Othello, fastidiously explore the intellectual predicaments faced by their subjects and the fine nuances of their subjects characters, Macbeth tumbles madly from its open...

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   At a banquet, Macbeth is haunted by visions of Banquo’s ghost in front of all his guests. Macbeth visits the witches and they tell him - the only person he needs to beware of is Macduff, no one a woman has given birth to can harm him and he won't be defeated until Birnam Wood moves. He thinks he's unbeatable.

7. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › topicsShakespeare’s Macbeth - Macbeth - Shakespeare - BBC

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   Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. The play follows the story of Macbeth, its. tragic hero. close. tragic hero A character who has ...

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   What is Macbeth based on?

   • Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, Macbeth tells the story of a brave Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophecy from a trio of sinister witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed with ambitious thoughts and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for himself.

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   When was Macbeth written?

   • Macbeth, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a playbook or a transcript of one. Some portions of the original text are corrupted or missing from the published edition. The play is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, without diversions or subplots.

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   Why did Shakespeare write Macbeth?

   • Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. [ 1 ] It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. [ 2 ]

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   Where did Macbeth come from?

   • Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.

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   What is the plot of Macbeth?

   • Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains disturbing and unusual events, including the murder of a king, witchcraft and ghosts. Macbeth is a tragedy, a type of play that contains lots of suffering and an unhappy ending for the main character. Watch the following video to learn about the plot of Macbeth:

   Shakespeare’s Macbeth plot summary - Macbeth - Shakespeare - BBC

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   Who is made king in Macbeth?

   • Duncan’s son, Malcolm, is made king. Have fun playing science, maths, history, geography and language games. Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman. Find out more with Bitesize.

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9. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › macbethMacbeth: Full Play Analysis - SparkNotes

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   Macbeth is a tragedy that tells the story of a soldier whose overriding ambition and thirst for power cause him to abandon his morals and bring about the near destruction of the kingdom he seeks to rule. At first, the conflict is between Macbeth and himself, as he debates whether or not he will violently seize power, and between Macbeth and his ...