Guide Note:Macbeth is a classic tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606
- Loosely based on Raphael Holinshed's historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland
- Published in the First Folio 1623
- Shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies (1993 lines)
- First performance: April 1611 - Globe Theatre
- Ran for 131 performances on Broadway in 1941
- Main Characters:
- Macbeth
- Lady Macbeth
- Macduff
- Duncan
- Banquo
- The Weird Sisters
- Famous Quotes:
- Lay on, Macduff.
- Out, damned spot! out, I say!
- Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
- Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
- Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
- Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- By the pricking of my thumbs, sSomething wicked this way comes.
- Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.