Macbeth

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Macbeth
William Shakespeare

A Shakespearian tragedy on hypocrisy, murder, guilt and remorse. Macbeth, the brave Scottish general of King Duncan revives a prophecy by three witches that one day he will become the new king of Scotland. Imbued with ambition he takes the throne and becomes a tyrannic ruler who plunges the land of his people in misfortune and disorder.

· · c. 1606

Critical edition

Wells, Stanley and George Hunter, eds. Penguin Shakespeare: Macbeth. Penguin Classics, 2015. 256 pp., ISBN 9780141396316

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