Light and Darkness
Macbeth is full of imagery of light and darkness. From the first, the cover of night is invoked whenever anything terrible is going t...Scotland and England in the 11th century
The play opens on a foggy heath amidst a terrible thunder storm. Most of the subsequent action also takes place under...Tragedy
People are always running around saying that Macbeth is one of the "greatest tragedies ever written." This might be true, but what the heck's a...Murky, Somber, Sinister, and Foreboding
Literary critics don't call the play Shakespeare's "darkest tragedy" for nothing. It opens with three witches conjuring...Blank Verse in Iambic Pentameter and Prose
Reading any one of Shakespeare's plays can feel like reading a lengthy poem and that's because they're written in a...Exactly what you think is up with the title. Shakespeare wasn't a guy to waste words.
That said, we don't want to leave you feeling disappointed so here's a bit of trivia that might interes...
We couldn't help it. We just had to take a peek at the ending of the play. Here's what goes down, in case you haven't finished reading the play yet.
Macbeth is slain by Macduff, who lops off...