Macbeth
Event
Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare probably in 1606, in a specific period of his life when he wrote his greatest tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Timon of Athens.
For MACBETH's drama plot, Shakespeare finds inspiration in Holinshed's chronicles about events in Scotland in the 10th and 11th centuries. And, in a brilliantly way, entwines two historical facts in the action: the murder of King Duff by Donwald (967) and the murder of Duncan by Macbeth, followed by his subsequent reign (1040/1057).
About two and a half millennia later in the history of theatre and, with all due respect for the great Greek tragedies, Macbeth is still the great tragic and universal work that, in an essential way, from the narrative point of view, exposes us and makes us ponder about love and power as boosters of the destiny of Man.
The relentless saga of the tragic hero Macbeth has disturbing similarities with the present time. It is this political dimension of the piece that makes it even more timeless.
Macbeth kills for love, lust for power and belief in the supernatural.
And so, Shakespeare celebrates in this piece a poetics of death and love, leading us inexorably through the inner labyrinths of the human being, using an intensely poetic language.
For MACBETH's drama plot, Shakespeare finds inspiration in Holinshed's chronicles about events in Scotland in the 10th and 11th centuries. And, in a brilliantly way, entwines two historical facts in the action: the murder of King Duff by Donwald (967) and the murder of Duncan by Macbeth, followed by his subsequent reign (1040/1057).
About two and a half millennia later in the history of theatre and, with all due respect for the great Greek tragedies, Macbeth is still the great tragic and universal work that, in an essential way, from the narrative point of view, exposes us and makes us ponder about love and power as boosters of the destiny of Man.
The relentless saga of the tragic hero Macbeth has disturbing similarities with the present time. It is this political dimension of the piece that makes it even more timeless.
Macbeth kills for love, lust for power and belief in the supernatural.
And so, Shakespeare celebrates in this piece a poetics of death and love, leading us inexorably through the inner labyrinths of the human being, using an intensely poetic language.
