In this next installment, we look at what is arguably the biggest, and most important, theme within Shakespeare's Macbeth - ambition. We make links to the Gunpowder plot, the traits of a tragic hero, the Bible, and horses...
Chapters
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‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it’ – Act 1.5
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‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself and falls on the oth