V fo r Vendetta:
A Graphic Retelling of M acbeth
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover,
a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
V, Vfor Vendetta
While no tragedy has only one interpretation, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has
long been heralded as a tragedy with a “universal” reading. Seen as the
triumphant assertion of the divine right of royalty over treasonous usurpation,
Macbeth was performed for a world in the aftermath of near tragedy. The
Gunpowder Plot, or Powder Treason as it was called, was an attempt to murder
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