Author: William Shakespeare
Merchant: Dymocks Books
Release Date: 15/03/2000
ISBN: 9780451526779

Review:
I thoroughly enjoy writing a review on a classic. Shakespeare has indeed written just such a classic with MacBeth. A tale of intrigue, power and bloody compulsion.

This play is perhaps held as one of Shakespeare's finest portrayals of power, greed, envy and the cost they incur when human passions are not checked. Lady MacBeth for many has come to represent the conniving and manipulative woman behind the scene. While MacBeth himself is portrayed as a weak tempered envious puppet in her hands.

The part the Witches play seems to parallel that of Lady MacBeth in goading MacBeth into action. The purpose behind Lady MacBeth is easily surmised as raw ambition. Though the motivation behind the Witches actions is far less obvious.

As a narrative to human passions and unbridled ambition. This play has lost none of its' strength since it was first performed at the Globe Theatre in April 1611.


Michael