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Macbeth (1606)
by William Shakespeare

Macbeth

Medium: play/musical/stage drama

Publication date: 1606

Publisher: Globe Theatre
Written by: William Shakespeare


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Macbeth Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findlaích)
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lead character real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Christian (medieval)
[star of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play"] Reginald Wolfe 72

This play/musical/stage drama is an adaptation of: Holinshed's Chronicles (1577).

William Shakespeare's Macbeth is commonly believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606. The most common year given for its origin is 1606, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. The play was first published in the Folio of 1623.