From PBS's new Shakespeare Uncovered blog... "Anatomy of a Scene (It’s Shakespeare like your High School English teacher never taught you.). Death and Dying in Hamlet and Macbeth. Hamlet and Macbeth are about a lot of things. Power and revenge. Madness and the otherworldly. But, when you get right down to it, these are plays about death and dying and murder: so that you know evil when it crosses your path."

See Shakespeare’s dark world illustrated and how each character came to their bloody end: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/blog/anatomy-of-a-scene/