How old was Macbeth?

Answer 1

Macbeth is the tragic hero of this play. At the beginning of the play, he has the title of Thane of Glamis, and later becomes the Thane of Cawdor. The audience must assume that he starts out perhaps in his 30's at the beginning of the play since he is a man of war. As the play progresses, he seems to age a great deal, more than the time that has actually passed. Also his appearance is not much discussed, he might be a stocky handsome warrior.

Answer 2

Duncan is often portrayed as an elderly man, white-haired and doddering, but that does not go with Malcolm and Donalbain being young men who have barely left boyhood. Playing Malcolm as a forty-year old does not fit with the way he behaves--it makes more sense to play Duncan in his fifties or early sixties. Philip Madoc in Peter Bogdanovich's film is an excellent example of a Duncan played as a man in late middle age.

Answer 3

He is around 80 years old. He says "threescore and ten I can remember well" which means that he has a memory which stretches back over seventy years. Depending on how early his earliest memory is, this puts him close to eighty.

Answer 4

Assuming that Macbeth was written in 1606 (it does seem to refer to the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605) he would have been 42.

Answer 5

She Was 35 In Wen She Was Trying To Get Macbeth To Kill Duncan

Answer 6

He was born in 1564 and he wrote it around 1606, so he was about 42.

Answer 7

mac beth was 62 whan she deid

Answer 8

In her thirties.

Answer 9

She was 6