Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue
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There's a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never even be uttered in a theater, a play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody severed head, a play filled with riddles, prophesies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder, a play by William Shakespeare sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Play" or the "Tragedy of Macbeth." First performed at the Globe Theater in London in 1606, "Macbeth" is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. It is also one of his most action-packed. In five acts, he recounts a story of a Scottish nobleman who steals the throne, presides over a reign of terror, and then meets a bloody end. Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition, power, and...
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There's a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never even be uttered in a theater, a play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody severed head, a play filled with riddles, prophesies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder, a play by William Shakespeare sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Play" or the "Tragedy of Macbeth." First performed at the Globe Theater in London in 1606, "Macbeth" is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. It is also one of his most action-packed. In five acts, he recounts a story of a Scottish nobleman who steals the throne, presides over a reign of terror, and then meets a bloody end. Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition, power, and...
