Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Maybe, "the Scottish play" is the most meaningful, it's very powerful and intense as a play. You can feel the character's emotions in your own "flesh and blood" (also a phrase commonly attributed to Shakespeare). It's all about ambition, and the desire to have power and rule the world. And it's also about the consequences of that. All the scenery is dark, gothic, medieval. Here you have witches, and madness, and castles, and desire and ambition, and killings and deaths, and ghosts and battles, and Lady Macbeth, who is probably one of the strongest women I've seen on a Shakespearean play. She delivers a lot of fantastic lines too. In short, a magnetic play, from beginning to end. But is better if you call it "The Scottish play" other ways, has a fame of carrying bad luck.

loved all my ap lit reads

It was a strange story, but as it was made by William Shakespeare it was wonderful.

I can never get enough of this play and have taught it for years with my freshmen honors' students. As freshmen, they read Shakespeare's shortest play; as sophomores, they read HAMLET, his largest play (and magnum opus IMHO). I always thought of MACBETH as a precursor to HAMLET, and that's how I taught it. One of his darkest plays, and one perhaps to revisit during these turbulent times. Dare I also suggest some FUN with MACBETH? Click the URL below, if interested. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vS9vlsRGx2r5Vh6HJz7HP7GhVr_rg-gHtVDvd73pwPfAKlDTaGEBWOobFtQYE4SzD5SaySxyu_ngRXV/pub?start=false&loop=true&delayms=60000&slide=id.g723e16834e_0_9

T'was fine. Not as good as TOTS.