Abstract:
This work explores the influence of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras witchcraft phobia on Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Tepmest. The aim of this paper is to depict the context in which Shakespeare wrote these plays. In other words, the present paper tries to present the Golden Age of the English history from another perspective and to prove the existence and the practice of witchcraft during the age of Shakespeare. This paper analyzes the two works in the light of the New historicist theory, and tries to present the two plays; Macbeth and The Tempest as historical documents
