Popular Culture Review Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2009 | Page 49

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 not o