Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Tragedy
Elizabethan Age.
1. The Author and His Times
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford, England. His father worked selling leather and grains, and was a town official. He was the third child out of eight children. His mother, Mary, came from a family of prosperous farmers and landowners. On November 28, 1582, he married Anne Hathaway. She was the daughter of a farmer near Stratford. He had three children with her, two of them being twins.
In the 1590's, Shakespeare went to London and joined a touring theater company. He work…
