01681nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200210009110000240011224500450013626000290018130000290021036500620023952011070030165000360140894200120144499900190145620230103161002.0230103b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780791083857 cAL aeng 223a822.33bBLOB aHarold Bloom968271 aBlooms major literary characters macbeth aUSAbChelsea Housec2005 axiii,213p.bPBc23x15cm. 2Generala1834b₹510.00c₹d₹600.00e15%f12-12-2022 aMacbeth; full title The Tragedy of Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death  2LitertureaEnglish drama968272 2ddccBK c226192d226192