Rank 64 of 100
Macbeth
Also known as The Tragedie of Macbeth
Synopsis
A general, fresh from battle, hears witches promise him a crown, and he and his wife decide not to wait for it. Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is a study of how a first murder teaches the hand to keep going, until sleep itself becomes an enemy.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- c. 1606
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Play
- Genre
- Tragedy
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 16th–17th century
- Movement
- Jacobean
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 110 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read plays in English
- Kind
- Fiction