Reviews for The Tragedy of Macbeth

The average rating for The Tragedy of Macbeth based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-27 00:00:00 Megan Labuda Tom Thumb satirizes the tropes of Arthurian legends and Jacobian dramas. Especially the last scene is a testament to this, which isn't exactly as bloody as Middleton's Women Beware Women and Other Plays, but it gets the point across. Absurdly gory, sloppily sentimental, fairy-talier than fairy-tales. (Read because of the entry "Queen Dollalolla, the slatterpiece" in Darconville's Cat's The Unholy Litany.)

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-19 00:00:00 Larry Lamb When a playwright writes a play to criticise the system, it's brave. But what about a law major, who became a magistrate, writing a play to savagely criticise the system and the PM personally? That's huge! This is the case with "The Tragedy of Tragedies". It shouldn't, by any means, considered as utter comedy because the message behind it is so harsh that it was one of the main reasons for the "Licencing Act 1737" to protect Robert Walpole -the PM of England back then' from political sataire. Regarding the play itself, Fielding skillfuly takes the characters of a famous legend from the folklore, tweaks them, and represents them to his audience. Everything about this work mainly revolves around overstatement and understatement; remember the complicated love triangle of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot? Now you have way more complicated relationships in the play and guess who's the new Lancelot? Tom Thumb! You know the respected government and parliament members? Forget about them and here are two fools, they are a better representation. Now you can see why this play was popular and we still remember it till now. Fielding is smart because he knew the people's love for King Arthur's legend so he decided to mess a little with their minds. In addition to the hilarious scenes in the play, Fielding's comedy goes way beyond the text. It's also in the preface and the footnotes. Everything is exaggerated and the critique is directed towards literature itself by making fun of all that writers showing off their Latin and knowledge. The efforts exerted in the preface and footnotes are unbelievable. Totally worth every minute of reading and credits to my drama professor for picking this play for our class and teaching us how to look thoroughly into such works.