Abstract:

Shakespeare was close to the political arena of his time, and his political awareness and conscience played an important role in his playwriting.Compared with Hamlet and his other tragedies, Macbeth is a more thorough and detailed treatment of the "political heart"of the hero as a "political animal".Most Shakespearean scholars have not duly appreciated Macbeth's identity as a political tragedy for the important reason, among many others, that they have unknowingly equated political struggle with the everlasting war between good and evil.Macbeth suggests some major subversive messages against feudal politics that can be characterized with blood and hypocrisy.Its unique discourse labeled ambition as evil and thus doomed Macbeth.

Key words: Shakespeare, Macbeth, political tragedy, political values