... apt today as it was when The King's Men first presented the play. I am most interested in studying Macbeth because the author, William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer of English literature. Macbeth is one of his first tragedies therefore setting precedence as the standard of his following ... , poems, and sonnets in his lifetime. All of which have been referred to as icons of to be studied within literature. Shakespeare finished Macbeth in 1606. This was before Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Intended as a tribute to King James I, Macbeth may have been first performed bef...

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