Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Notes in Bullet Points | BA, MA, TGT, PGT, UGC-NET
Macbeth: an Introduction Dramatist - William Shakespeare Genre - Tragedy First Performed - 1606 First Printed - 1623 Full Title - The Tragedy of Macbeth Written in Reign of - James I Literary period - Jacobean Age (24 March, 1603- 27 March, 1625) Published in - Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies , also known as First Folio Also known as - Shortest and Bloodiest Tragedy by Shakespeare Theme - Ambition for Power Total Male Characters - 21 Total Female Characters - 3 ( Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, a gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth) Total Witches - 3 Total Thanes - 8 (Thane of Ross, Thane of Lennox, Thane of Menteith, Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Fife, Thane of Angus, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Caithness) Sources of Macbeth Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) Daemonologie by King James I (1597) Rerum Scoticarum Historia by George Buchanan (1582) Historia Gentis Scotorum by Hector Boece (1527) Discovery of Witch...