"Macbeth" comes out as one of William Shakespeare's darkest and murkiest plays, most likely as a result of being written during one of Shakespeare's darkest times in his own life. This play strays away from the more common Shakespearean formula that contains a hero and his demise resulting from a specific tragic fla. In "MacBeth", the title character is not a hero, but rather a villian. MacBeth murders the king of Scotland to bring truth to a prophecy given to him by three witches (the famous "toil and trouble" sisters). After assuming the throne, MacBeth returns to the witches and requests to hear the circumstances of his own death. The witches tell MacBeth he cannot be killed by any "man of woman born." Under a false assumption of near immortality, MacBeth relaxes his gaurd and perhaps displays his own tragic flaw of over confidence.
Focusing on the power corrupt and merciless villain MacBeth and his dastardly and influential wife Lady MacBeth, this play works as a twisted look into a mind poisioned with greed and hate. Though pessimistic and disturbing, this play must not be dismissed. It contains some of the most poetic language and beautiful lines ever to be written. It is no mystery that MacBeth stands as one of the most quoted works in literature. It is however a mystery that Shakespeare could create something so magnificient in a period when he saw life as "...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Classic Shakespeare. Macbeth is a story of betrayal, suspicion and witchcraft. Macbeth is quite possibly Shakespeare's most famous tragedy and it is definately one to be read by all. You don't know Shakespeare until you have read Macbeth ,for all those who think they know Shakespeare can not rationally make this claim until they have read Macbeth.

"I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er"

An eerie & atmospheric tragedy from the master bard... Macbeth hears a prophecy that he will be king from three witches. He is driven relentlessly onward by the coldly manipulative and ruthlessly ambitious lady Macbeth. One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, this one always sends a chill down the spine as you see the depravity of which human beings are capable of...