📚Macbeth
📇Author: William Shakespear
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1624
🌬Genre: #tragedy

📝Summary:
Macbeth dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power.

🔮Interesting Facts:
Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company.

🔎Background:
Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. 


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📚Hamlet
📇Author: William Shakespear
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1599-1601
🌬Genre: #tragedy

📝Summary:
Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

🔮Interesting Facts:
Hamlet is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words.

🔎Background:
Its story was derived from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum, as subsequently retold by the 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest. Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe Shakespeare wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet that exists today.


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