Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) -

William Shakespeare

Simon & Schuster

2003

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780743477109

Macbeth is one of most famous plays and a great tragedy of Shakespeare. It is also named as 'The Scottish play'. The title itself suggests the name of the protagonists. The whole play revolves around the protagonists Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. "Macbeth" means "son of life", and is a Christian name rather than a patronymic. The themes that are depicted in the play are that of fate, ambition, treachery and deception. The drama is rich in imagery. Moreover, the idea prevalent is that the state of nature affects the state of the world, where there is thunder, lightning, doom and gloom.

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Leitura um pouco confusa, talvez devido à tradução. Apesar de ser uma obra inferior à Otelo e Hamlet, se torna mais envolvente na segunda metade da história. Vale a pena ler e refletir sobre a ambição humana.