1. Macbeth
Introduction

2. Macbeth Tragedy Last of the four “great tragedies”
Almost all the scenes take place at night or in some dark spot.

3. Macbeth & Evil
It is a play about the eclipse of civility and manhood, the temporary triumph of evil, when it ends, virtue and justice are restored, the time is free, the “weal” once more made “gentle.”
It is Shakespeare’s most intensive study of evil at work in the individual and in the world at large.

4. Abridged?
Its unusual brevity yields to the theory that Macbeth is abridged.
Ex. Murder assignment

5. Origin Romeo & Juliet = Boiastuau
Macbeth = the Chronicles of Holinshed
Reign of Duncan and Macbeth ( )

6. Term to Know Force Character:
The character(s) that controls the event in the story.

7. Any Questions?