Macbeths Downfall
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Macbeth is Shakespeare's bloody tragedy that tells the story of a Scottish general, his decent into madness, and his death. This play is the last of four great Shakespearean tragedies, which includes Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It can also be described, as Foakes has: "a play about an ambitious prince who overreaches himself in murdering the King; and who brings about his own downfall in the end." (Foakes 8) Macbeth's tragic flaw of an overzealous ambition eventually led to his decent into madness and to his ultimate demise.
Shakespeare was born in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He attended the Stratford Grammar School, and had no further education. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and he had 3 children with her. Around 1590, Shakespeare moved, without his family, to London to work as an actor and a playwright. He joined a successful acting troupe called "The Lord Chamberlain's Men." When they lost the lease of their theatre in 1599, they were wealthy enough to build a new theatre, which they called "The Globe...