MacBeth Course work
Introduction
William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth for James l of England who was also James Vl of Scotland. This was very convenient as the genre of the play was Scottish and it was written about a Scottish king.
The play was written soon after the gunpowder plot in 1605. Guy Falk's had tried to kill James l this is very similar to the plot of the play as Duncan the king Scotland gets killed by Macbeth. Shakespeare took the basic story from The Chronicles of Scotland, a history book by Raphael Holinshed, but he changes a lot of the details. Like in the book Banquo was bad but in the play Shakespeare made him good, this was done to butter up the king.
The main theme is about witchcraft and deceit. The reason that Shakespeare used witchcraft in hid plot was because James Vl was very interested in the supernatural so interested in fact that he wrote a book called Holinshed's Chronicles of England's, Scotland and Ireland which he wrote in 1587.
Introduction
William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth for James l of England who was also James Vl of Scotland. This was very convenient as the genre of the play was Scottish and it was written about a Scottish king.
The play was written soon after the gunpowder plot in 1605. Guy Falk's had tried to kill James l this is very similar to the plot of the play as Duncan the king Scotland gets killed by Macbeth. Shakespeare took the basic story from The Chronicles of Scotland, a history book by Raphael Holinshed, but he changes a lot of the details. Like in the book Banquo was bad but in the play Shakespeare made him good, this was done to butter up the king.
The main theme is about witchcraft and deceit. The reason that Shakespeare used witchcraft in hid plot was because James Vl was very interested in the supernatural so interested in fact that he wrote a book called Holinshed's Chronicles of England's, Scotland and Ireland which he wrote in 1587.
