Did William Shakespeare, who in the early 1600s wrote many plays and sonnets, make a terrible mistake while writing just one of his plays? This is a play that is still famous all over the world today. Shakespeare wrote the play of MacBeth for King James who enjoyed short plays and found an interest in witchcraft. “Round around the cauldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw. Toad that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter’d venum sleeping got. Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot” (Tritsch 1). Shakespeare was so determined to please King James that he used curses from a 17th century black-magic ritual. Witches that had practiced the curses disapproved of them being put on for production. In return the witches placed a curse on the play that is still haunting MacBeth in almost every performance.
William Shakespeare took interest in MacBeth who was originally the King of Scotland for seventeen years. “Shakespeare reveals that he is planning to write about MacBeth, who ruled Scotland between 1040 and 1057. The story is well known, and he believes it will make an excellent drama” (Ross 13). Shakespeare did not learn much about European history through his education at Stratford-upon-Avon grammar schoo
death to many actors and their audience since it has started some 400 years ago. “It seems like everyone who has had a part acting in the play of MacBeth has some sort of strange story to tell” (Mann 1). Is the curse of MacBeth still only a coincidence?
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