Reviews

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

vhungw's review against another edition

3.0

3 stars bc I failed my test on this in AP lit

readingduckling's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Liked this story and especially the cover. 
I will someday read other shakespeare works someday but not today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Minor: War

pengi_the_gay's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lisabinder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

magda_the_reader's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

mt1203's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

emegallego's review against another edition

2.0

Me van a quitar el pin de cultureta, pero me ha costado acabar esto. Dicen que es una obra incompleta y, ciertamente, lo parece.

idont's review against another edition

i hate it negative 10 stars
he kills duncan
lm commits suicide

coffeequasars's review against another edition

4.0

When I first started reading this, I quite honestly thought that "Macbeth" wouldn't be the kind of play I'd want to read. After a couple of pages, however, the plot kind of grew on me. If I would need to describe it in one sentence: short, yet very powerful!

whimsicalmeerkat's review against another edition

5.0

Edit to below, discovered after re-reading. I confused my passages, I meant the passage that includes "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more."


I can never decide if I like Macbeth, Hamlet, or King Lear best. I've given up trying. This story is haunting. It also contains one of my favorite passages of Shakespeare. It is the part that contains the overused phrase "all the world's a stage," but most people seem to not understand that it was spoken by a madwoman prior to her death. Either way, fantastic as Shakespeare almost always is.