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Macbett
**Macbett** is a 1972 play by Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian-French playwright known for the Theatre of the Absurd. It's a darkly comic parody of Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, in which Ionesco strips the tragedy down to absurdist elements—two witches, cyclical violence, and a tyrant whose rise to power via regicide and bloodshed suggests that history endlessly repeats itself, reflecting Ionesco's concern