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Shakespeare Play Summaries

Need to get a quick overview of one of Shakespeare’s plays? Read – or listen – to one of our five minute Shakespeare play summaries to understand the main characters, plots and stories of each play.

Summaries of Shakespeare’s most popular plays:

Macbeth Summary

King Duncan’s generals, Macbeth and Banquo, encounter three strange women on a bleak Scottish moorland on their way home from quelling a rebellion.

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The women prophesy that Macbeth will be given the title of Thane of Cawdor and then become King of Scotland, while Banquo’s heirs shall be kings…. read full Macbeth summary

Othello Summary

In the opening scene, Iago complains to Roderigo that Othello, his Commander, has passed him over to promote the handsome young Cassio to be his Lieutenant.

He vows to get revenge. Iago first asks Roderigo to tell Desdemona’s father, Brabantio, that his daughter has left to marry Othello, a marriage Brabantio opposes