William Shakespeare

Macbeth: Tragedia en Cuatro Actos De Shakespeare William Shakespeare

Publisher Marketing: Macbeth es una de las obras mas populares de William Shakespeare. Es una tragedia en cuatro actos, en prosa y en verso, que fue compuesta probablemente hacia 1606 y estrenada poco despues. Fue publicada por primera vez en 1623, en la edicion conocida como First Folio. Macbeth es una tragedia acerca de la traicion y la ambicion desmedida. No hay seguridad absoluta de que la tragedia sea en su totalidad obra de Shakespeare, ya que algunos afirman que ciertos pasajes podrian ser adiciones posteriores del dramaturgo Thomas Middleton, cuya obra La bruja (The witch) tiene multiples afinidades con Macbeth. La obra esta libremente basada en el relato de la vida de un personaje historico, Macbeth, que fue rey de los escoceses entre 1040 y 1057. La fuente principal de Shakespeare para esta tragedia fueron las Cronicas de Raphael Holinshed, obra de la que extrajo tambien los argumentos de sus obras historicas. Holinshed se baso a su vez en Historia Gentis Scotorum (Historia de los escoceses), obra escrita en latin por el autor escoces Hector Boece e impresa por primera vez en Paris en 1527. Para agradar a su mecenas, el rey Jacobo V de Escocia, Boece habia oscurecido deliberadamente la figura de Macbeth, con el fin de exaltar a un hipotetico antepasado del rey, Bancuo. 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When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--their older daughter Susanna and the twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent, not in Stratford, but in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright, but as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Sometime between 1610 and 1613, Shakespeare is thought to have retired from the stage and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616.