Macbeth is my all-time favorite of Shakespeare's plays--which, to be clear, isn't that high of a compliment considering I've only read five in total and didn't enjoy most of those. BUUUUT I swear I am not exaggerating, this one is really fucking fantastic. There's something about the eerie atmosphere of magic, prophecy, greed, and violence that sets it apart from the others. It's more dramatic, intriguing, and mysterious, and reads almost like a fantasy novel with a lot of political intrigue, or a dark fairytale retelling. The development of the characters is fascinating, particularly the central figures of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. At its core, this is a story about two people who conspire to seize power for themselves, and their descent into corruption and madness as they struggle to maintain their position while accepting the crimes they've committed. It's very Game of Thrones-y, tbh. 
 I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Shakespeare, mostly because while I can appreciate his significant contributions to the English language, I don't always enjoy deciphering the often archaic and confusing language of his plays and poetry. For some reason *cough* because it's one of the shortest plays *cough* this doesn't bother me so much in Macbeth, and I have quite a few favorite quotes. 
 For example, there's lots of Lady Macbeth being a badass bitch: 
 Come, you spirits 
 That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, 
 And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full 
 Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; 
 Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 
 That no compunctious visitings of nature 
 Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 
 The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, 
 And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, 
 Wherever in your sightless substances 
 You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, 
 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 
 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 
 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 
 To cry 'Hold, hold!' 
 Look like the innocent flower, 
 But be the serpent under't. 
 I have given suck, and know 
 How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: 
 I would, while it was smiling in my face, 
 Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, 
 And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you 
 Have done to this. 
 Then there's some atmospheric shit in which Macbeth is being unsurprisingly moody: 
 Light thickens; and the crow 
 Makes wing to the rooky wood: 
 Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; 
 While night's black agents to their preys do rouse. 
 This play also features some top-notch Shakespearean shade-throwing: 
 Son: Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain! 
 Murderer: What, you egg! *stabbing him* Young fry of treachery! 
 Aaaand a few other good ones: 
 I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; 
 It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash 
 Is added to her wounds. 
 Alas, poor country! 
 Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot 
 Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing, 
 But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile; 
 Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air 
 Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems 
 A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell 
 Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives 
 Expire before the flowers in their caps, 
 Dying or ere they sicken. 
 Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak 
 Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. 
 To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day 
 To the last syllable of recorded time, 
 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
 The way to dusty death. 
 Out, out, brief candle! 
 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 
 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage 
 And then is heard no more: it is a tale 
 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
 Signifying nothing. 
 Basically: if you like Shakespeare, read this. If you don't like Shakespeare, read this. I just want everyone to read this play and obsess over it with me, it's that fricking good. 
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 rereading this because MACBETH IS MY ABSOLUTE FAV SHAKESPEARE PLAY 
 expect updates of me fangirling over Lady Macbeth