![]() The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. ![]() Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. The play is set primarily in Scotland, and follows the character of Macbeth, a bold Scottish general, as he becomes power-hungry and demented with political ambition. Shakespeare penned the play during the reign of James V1, who was a patron of the playwright’s acting company. ![]() William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599-1606. ![]()
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