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REVIEW AFTER 2022 REREAD:

It's Shakespeare.

I can easily cop-out and just leave this review as that. After all, it's Shakespeare. What else can I, a random dweller of the internet who also carries a pile of books with him wherever he goes, say about the person who might arguably be the most famous author to have ever lived and died on this Earth. To add salt to the wound, what else can I say about one of this author's most celebrated and applauded work that is embedded into culture in more ways than one. You can say the work's name in a classroom and the students are in awe of beautiful language and fruitful opportunities for discussions and writings. You can say the work's name in a theater and everyone will cower in fear for whatever ghost-demon-devil-curse will make their theatric brain go haywire. After all, IT'S MACBETH BY WILLIAM FRICK-FRACKING SHAKESPEARE.

It's good. It's really, really good. You read Shakespeare for the language and fascinating characters that are constructed from the deepest pits of humanity's most fearsome flaws. Macbeth delivers on that through the story of royal conflict, murder, and royal conflict that leaves people murdered. I have personally realized over the past few years that Shakespeare really isn't a masterful storyteller. In fact, the narratives of his plays are probably the weakest element of his legendary body of work. Yet he also feels like the one truly great author that can somehow dodge telling a truly amazing story. Instead he can merely fill in the gaps with unparalleled language and memorable characters. You don't read a play like Macbeth for the plot. You read it for the language. That beautiful, luscious language. After all, it's Shakespeare.

I can go on and on about what this play is but I'm just going to take the easy road out. I have realized that I have pinned myself in a corner in this review (if one can even call it that). Macbeth is just one of those few works in the world of literature that is permanently etched into the world (for better or for worse) and it does not need me to go at length to show its' glorious nature. After all, it's Shakespeare. The man could've sneeze on a bar napkin and it would be published as his long-lost sonnet. So, with my fourth installment in my big reread project of 2022, I can safely say that Macbeth lived up to my expectations. It's a great play that deserves to sit on its throne of words and blood.

What are you still doing here, you egg?
*stabs in ending review*

I am giving this one a 4.5 out fo 5 stars.