History of Macbeth

• Macbeth is an unususal style for Shakespear. He normally didn't creat such plays that dealt with psyco pathic killers and murder.
• The play begins with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth cutting open the body of a person that they have just murdered.
• Troughout the story there is the reacuring theme of what it really means to be difined as a man. Lady Macbeth wants to be more like a man and less like a woman so she will be able to kill more cold heartedly.  When the time comes to kill Duncan Macbeth says it is unmanly to kill another man in his sleep but Lady Macbeth argues that it would make him more manly and they argue.
• Shakespear got his story from Raphael Holinshed.  Who wrote the CHronicles.
• The name Macbeth means sone of life and is a christian name.
• Lady Macbeth was really refered to as the Grouch and she was the daughter of a man named biote
• Around 1950 the play was performed for the pleasure of king JamesI.
• The debate among many is whether the play is a message of despair or hope.
• The play was written by Shakespear in 1605-1606.
• Most of the time his plays took place during a time period of about 100 years befor his own but Macbeth took place 500 years befor his time.  It was durring a time in which the people of England had a very vague understanding about.
• He had his own privat theatre in the city of London which was uncommon. It seated only a couple hundred people unlike the big outdoor dome that seated thousands.
• The was written/attributed to King James of England who was also the king of Scotland.
• The play is not historicaly correct. Some facts and events were tweaked to satisfy the political status of Sakespears time.