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Adaptations of MacBeth

The audience is arguably the single most important factor in a play, movie, or any performing art for that matter. The job of the director is to turn a script into a film or play and to make it enjoyable for their viewers. Adaptations sometimes take an original work and adapt that work to a ...

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How is Macbeth is a Statement of Evil?

The character Macbeth is shown to be very evil in Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare. He was not evil until he becomes tempted by the Witches prophecies. Macbeth was a noble man until he was tempted by evil. The evil consumed him overtime, from all the murders he commits, and from trying to interfere with ...

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Guide to Macbeth on Film

Though it’s difficult to quantify, “Macbeth” might be the Shakespeare play most often turned into a film. Here’s a guide to major film productions of “Macbeth,” both original text and adapted. Original Text There are several early and not well-known films of “Macbeth. ” The oldest known “Macbeth” film dates back all the way to ...

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Who was the Mysterious Third Murderer in Macbeth?

William Shakespeare wrote many great plays. One of them, the tragedy of Macbeth, was very bloody and violent. Macbeth was based on The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Shakespeare wrote it in 1606 but it remained unpublished until 1623. The play is filled with betrayal, mystery, and murder. After Macbeth becomes king, he is ...

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Macbeth: a Victim of Ambition or Fate or Both

Though the phrases “victim of fate” and “victim of ambition” hardly seem consistent with Macbeth’s character, there are definitely elements of both fate and ambition involved in his life. While it seems that Macbeth may have always possessed the desire to be king, it is not until he meets the three witches and hears their ...

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The Women of Shakespeare Tragedies

Women did not appear on the stage in England until the seventeenth century. The roles of women in William Shakespeare’s plays were often played by young boys. However, Shakespeare wrote quite powerful roles for the women in his plays. He tended to make male characters the primary protagonists, but the female characters held dominant supporting ...

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Macbeth Themes

Numerous underlying themes are present throughout Macbeth, the classic play written by the great playwright, William Shakespeare. One of the chiefs themes present throughout the play, however, is that of ambition. Ambition was a theme that was clearly evident as Macbeth, and his counterpart, Lady Macbeth continued to strive for political power and glory, and ...

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Inverse Development of Lord and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth undergo an inverse character development that contrasts each one’s strengths and weaknesses. Early on in the play, Macbeth is shown as a weak man; however, he slowly becomes mad with power, killing anyone who he believes is a threat to his crown. Early on in the play ...

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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ambition’s Dark Side

Macbeth is truly a great tragic figure because his downfall cannot be explained away by the facile use of the mistaken translation of Aristotle’s “character flaw”, but rather because his story is one of the de-evolution of a person’s innate humanity through bad judgment based on the often prized characteristic of ambition. Rather than pushing ...

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Masculinity in Macbeth and Othello

In the plays Othello and Macbeth, masculinity or acting in a manly way is a central theme and a very distinct characteristic of the male (and some of the female) characters in these plays. However it seems to be the case that often masculinity equals brutality or excessive aggression. It also seems that if men ...