Macbeth is among the most popular of William Shakespeare's plays, as well as his
shortest tragedy. It is frequently performed at professional and community theatres around the
world.
Macbeth is seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for power and betrayal of
friends. It is loosely based upon the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by the
Scottish philosopher Hector Boece. Macbeth incorporates the characteristic features of
a morality play. Scholars think it is an archetypal Jacobean play with plenty of endorsements of
James I's reign and place its composition around 1606. There is evidence the play incorporates
revisions by Thomas Middleton.
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Macbeth is a classic tragedy filled with blood, witches, kings, wars, murder and betrayal. Actors and other theatre people often consider Macbeth to be 'unlucky', and usually refer to it superstitiously as The Scottish Play rather than by name. The characters are sometimes referred to as Mackers and Lady Mackers. To say the name of the play inside a theatre is believed to doom the production to failure, and perhaps cause physical injury or worse to cast members.