The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy believed to have been written around 1606-1607 and was first performed in 1606. Shakespeare, born in 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, was a renowned playwright and poet during the English Renaissance. Macbeth was likely written for King James I and contains themes and characters that would have appealed to him, including supernatural elements like witches
