Alison's review
Lady Macbeth: A Novel
by Susan Fraser King
Alison's review
Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Susan Fraser King
Alison's review
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I picked this up because I enjoy historical fiction, and this was pretty good. It traces the life of Lady MacBeth, from when she is about 13 or so until just after MacBeth's death. I love seeing the intersections of history & literature, and this provided exactly this example. There's not a whole lot known about Lady MacBeth, and so the scholar had to go on what she could find and expand on that given what we know about the time. There's not really anything that ties this directly to the tale we know from Shakespeare, but there are some interesting parallels, and you can see how he might have worked off of legends or stories of the pair.
