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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Introduction To Macbeth

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Berkeley, David Shelley
Affiliation: Professor Of English, Oklahoma State University

Introduction To Macbeth

Theme.

There are few plays from which all critics will abstract the same main
theme. With this caveat one may think that Macbeth is founded on the idea that
the nature of man and the nature of man's universe are so constructed that a
man cannot play with evil and remain prosperous and intact in this world, not
to mention the next one. More precisely, in the words and formulation of G. R.
Elliott, it is that a "wicked intention ...

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