Macbeth is the darkest of Shakespeare's tragedies. It is a play so associated with fear and dread that actors deem it cursed and refuse to utter it's name in a theater, referring to it only in whispered tones as, "The Scottish Play". What insight does this dark tale of power and ambition have to share with us about human nature, sin, and guilt? So fair and foul a play you have not seen.
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