After a prophecy foretells his rise to power, the ambitious warrior Macbeth is driven to seize the Scottish throne by any means necessary. Urged on by Lady Macbeth, he descends into a cycle of murder, guilt, and paranoia that unravels both his mind and his rule. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the corrupting force of ambition is laid bare —exploring fate, conscience, and the dark consequences of unchecked desire.
Date: 1623 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~108 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~14.650.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Poetry & Drama, Classics
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"Macbeth is Shakespeare's darkest exploration of ambition and guilt" — Harold Bloom, preeminent literary critic
"A tragedy of moral blindness and the ruinous pursuit of power" — T.S. Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning poet and critic
"Macbeth's character is one of Shakespeare's most compelling studies of conscience" — A.C. Bradley, influential Shakespearean scholar and critic
"Shakespeare shows the terrible consequences of unchecked ambition with astonishing clarity" — Helen Gardner, literary critic and scholar
"Macbeth is a story where the mind is both a battlefield and a prison" — Christopher Hitchens, author and critic
"No other of Shakespeare's tragedies blends psychological insight with poetic brilliance so completely" — John Dover Wilson, Shakespearean scholar and critic
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