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Lady Macbeth, A Woman Drove By Love Or Ambition' William Shakespeare is without a doubt the most popular playwright in the history of the theatre. Shakespeare wrote over thirty plays, and none more popular than “Macbeth.” “Macbeth,” a tragedy in five acts, is based on episodes in the life of a king of Scotland, who lived from 1005-1057. The tragedy is a penetrating, concentrated and harrowing study of ambition. Both Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, have a driving ambition that turns each of them into a spiral of guilt and evil. No character in any of Shakespeare’s plays undergoes such a radical change as that which transforms Lady Macbeth from a nearly superhuman character in the first act of Macbeth into a sleep-walking zombie at the start of the fifth and final act in the play. The question, however, that needs to be asked is, was she a self-made monster of ambition and evil or an emotionally imbalanced woman driven by love' Shakespeare first introduces the character of Lady Macbeth into the play in Act I, Scene V. The first words spoken of Lady Macbeth are in prose. Shakespeare often used this to show something significant was about to happen. Lady Macbeth’s macbeth, lady, scene, murder, macbeth’s, husband, act, evil, play, character, ambition, two, first, time, shakespeare, out, now, make, king, duncan, words, woman, strength, plays, last, inversion, however, blood, become, after, wife, though, strong, sleepwalking, sign