Title: Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Genre: Classic | Play
Format: Paperback
Length: 127 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1606
My Rating: ★★★ (3 stars)
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Synopsis:
One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.
This shocking tragedy – a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake – is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.
My Review:
Oh Macbeth, the play I had to study in Secondary school. I haven’t read this play since those days and this month seemed to be a month of revisiting books, I read a long time ago.
Macbeth is a play about a nobleman who enters the path of evil and makes the ultimate decision to murder the king. This is turn begins a vicious circle of crime for which he cannot shake. He can’t wash the blood off his murderous greedy hands.
I enjoyed the inclusion of witchcraft, ghosts and destiny. We get to see Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness, and how Macbeth is both a hero and a villain. This story isn’t black and white, good vs evil and that made the play more interesting to me.
This play isn’t one of my favourites by Shakespeare, but I did like revisiting it. Maybe one day I’ll be able to see it on stage.
