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Macbeth, Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy about ambition could not be more modern. The play explores how ambition—that compelling human aspiration that drives modern society—develops from a mere suggestion to an overpowering passion. We watch—and learn—as professional success and personal amity crumble under the reality of fate and human nature.
Arlene Okerlund, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of English at San Jose State University, specializes in Shakespeare and in Medieval/Renaissance studies. She twice taught in SJSU’s Semester-Abroad-in England where she loved studying Shakespeare and English history on site. During retirement, she has published biographies of England’s first Yorkist queen, Elizabeth Wydeville, in Elizabeth: England’s Slandered Queen, and the first Tudor queen (mother of Henry VIII), in Elizabeth of York.
