Macbeth : Key info
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Key info
William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) is a well-known figure in English literature. He is the national poet of England. He is often called the bard of Avon. He has written 37 plays and 154 sonnets in his lifespan. His major works are Romeo and Juliet (1595), The Merchant of Venice (1600), Hamlet (1603), King Lear (1605), Othello (1622), Macbeth (1623), As You Like It (1623), All’s Well That Ends Well (1623) and so on.
Time of composition and performance: Macbeth was written around 1606 and it was performed in the same year.
Publish Date: Macbeth is published in the ‘first folio’. That means it was published in 1623.
Genre: Macbeth is a tragedy.
Number of Acts: There are five acts in the play. Act 1 contains seven scenes, act 2 contains four scenes, act 3 contains six scenes, act 4 contains three scenes and act 5 contains nine scenes.
Source of the Play: Holinshed’s Chronicles or (of England, Scotland, and Ireland).
Time Setting: 17th century.
Place setting: All the scenes are set in Scotland except the last part of the fourth act. The last part of the fourth act is set in England.