Macbeth
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First performed around 1606, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy of ambition, prophecy and the terrible consequences of surrendering to desire. When three mysterious witches predict that Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman and celebrated soldier, will become king, their words awaken a hunger for power that neither he nor his wife can contain. Urged onwards by Lady Macbeth, he commits murder to seize the crown, only to find that possession of power brings neither security nor peace. As Scotland descends into tyranny, guilt and suspicion begin to consume the couple from within.
Among Shakespeare’s darkest and most concentrated tragedies, Macbeth explores the fragility of conscience, the seductions of fate and the violence through which authority is acquired and maintained. Its supernatural atmosphere, haunting imagery and relentless dramatic momentum have secured its place at the heart of the Shakespearean canon, while its portrait of a mind undone by its own ambitions remains startlingly immediate. From the witches’ riddling prophecies to Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking, the play reveals a world in which the boundaries between appearance and reality, courage and cruelty, are perilously uncertain.
From the book
“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
On Macbeth
“Macbeth … turns out on closer inspection to be one of Shakespeare’s most intimate dramas, his fullest examination of a marriage.”
— Folger Shakespeare Library, Susan Snyder, “A Modern Perspective: Macbeth”