“Macbeth is the unlucky play of the theatre and has, for four hundred years, carried in its wake a truly terrifying trail of disaster and bad luck.” (Huggett p153) Macbeth is one of the gloomiest and most despairing of any tragedy ever written. The play is so preoccupied with witchcraft and generates such a powerful atmosphere of evil and sickening dread that even reading it could make anyone tremble with fear. Murder, betrayal, mysterious accidents, …showed first 75 words of 1361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1361 total…or other prop because it is heard to have been used in “That Play“.(Huggett p158) Whether it is pure coincidence or mere fact that Macbeth is cursed, there are incidents until this very day that provide examples of the unfortunate events that this play brings with its name. Anyone, no matter what they believe, cannot simply dismiss all of the events as superstitious nonsense, for there are too many to simply be explained away.