Macbeth. Superstitions.

SUPERSTITIONS         The tragedy of Macbeth was written by Shakespeare in 1606 and produced in 1610. Macbeth is the most concentrated of Shakespeare's tragedies. The action gushes forward with great speed from the beginning to end. The main characters in the play are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, who are very noble, but their evil ambition ultimately causes their downfall and death. The play focuses around evil, greed and the supernatural. The play was written by Shakespeare for the …showed first 75 words of 1080 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…but not entirely true. i.e They told him that he would be king but not how he would become king. The witches told Macbeth who, what, why, where but they did not tell him how and when. So as you can see superstitions were greatly believed and related to in Elizabethan time and the same superstitions were used in the play with a bit of imagination a great play writer and book was written.