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The of Macbeth ( commonly called Macbeth ) a by Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath . It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is to have been sometime 1603 1607 . Shakespeare's source the are the accounts of King of Scotland , Macduff , and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles ( ) , a history of England , and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries . , the story of as told by Shakespeare bears little relation to events Scottish , as was an admired and able .