Macbeth Context

Macbeth Context AO3

Shakespeare

• Dramatist
• national poet
• 154 sonnets
• All his earlier plays were comedies and histories
• Until 1608 he wrote mailny tragedies e.g.Macbeth and Othello
• He also wrote tragicomedies (Romance)

James I

• King of Scotland and England
• Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to please King James and made sure he was on the winning side
• He was patron of the arts as Queen Elizabeth was before

Roles of women

• Women were expected to be meek,mild and subservient to men and be good hostesses
• They had little to no rights at all
• A woman was supposed to obey her husband and help him in earning money for the survival of…