Macbeth context
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- Created on: 17-04-19 14:44
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- Macbeth context
- Macbeth was written from 1603-1607
- Macbeth was performed in 1611
- the gun powder plot
- an attempt to kill king james
- the play becomes a warning as to what could happen if the rightful king is killed - Duncan is killed and chaos ensued
- Consider the divine right of kings
- king chosen by god so to interfere in the divine right of kingship is to challenge god
- henry garnet
- equivocation taught to those involved in the plot.
- catholics could lie without breaking a commandment
- didn't give away guilt as they didn't give straight answers
- context
- written during the Jacobean period
- king james I = son of Mary queen of Scott's - Macbeth is set in Scotland seeking kings favour
- james I was also james VI of Scotland
- king james = obssesed with the supernatural
- james wrote a book called 'demonology'
- consider- did Shakespeare include the witches simply to please the king, could the play of worked out without them?
- king james = can trace his ancestry back to Banquo - in the Holinshed's chronicles
- Macbeth is a pre-gothic text
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