16th-century 17c 17th-century ambition britain british british-literature classic classic-literature classics drama early-modern elizabethan england english english-literature fiction graphic-novel guilt high-school historical historical-fiction history literatura literature macbeth made-into-movie murder play plays poetry power renaissance royalty school scotland script shakespeare teatro theater theatre tragedies tragedy verse witches

Dark and bloody drama of ambition, guilt, and revenge centers on an ambitious Scottish nobleman who murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes fatally enmeshed in a web of treachery and deceit that spells his doom. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.