Author: William Shakespeare Language: English The Tragedy of Macbeth) is atragedybyWilliam Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during thereign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare'sacting company,Macbethmost clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign.[1]It was first published in theFolio of 1623, possibly from aprompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy