Probably my favourite play of Shakespeare's so far.

I read this back in school maybe 8 or 9 years ago? I didn't remember much apart from the general vibe and feeling, some scenes and locations of how I had interpreted it all those years ago. This time I read it alongside watching Shakespeare's Globe on Screen stage performance and here are my thoughts of the play:

Now I have read The Tempest, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, all are good but this one, Macbeth, is just what I wanted, it was darker and a lot more tense - way more my style. The atmosphere of the castles, the battlefields, the witches, the dark nights, the screams in the wind, blood, terrors under candlelight, ghosts, murder. Yes YEs YES.

Lady Macbeth being the one who drove Macbeth, the witches and their prophecies that spurred Macbeth on - his craving for power and what it made him do, one murder after another, not all at his hands, but at his command. He sunk deeper and deeper into the murderer mindset until he was 'in blood, Stepped in so far'. The dark and gloomy atmosphere of Wuthering Heights meets the character and plot of Crime and Punishment.

While Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's shortest plays, for me it was packed and packed with action. Loved it, and all these years later after having studied it at school, only now can I truthfully say that I'm glad this play is taught in schools.