Macbeth context

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  • Macbeth plot and context
    • Witchcraft at the time of Shakespeare
      • Associated with dark and death
      • "agents of satan"
      • used because many people thought they were evil
        • showed crime and sin
          • "devil does not lie ...but leads into temptation"
      • king James was particularly superstitious
    • gunpowder plot
      • 13 conspiracy
      • Guy Forks and Robert Gatsby
      • Aftermath made Catholics unable to vote
        • poor treatment of Catholics
      • 1605
    • Bible
      • Burned copies
      • written in Hebrew + Latin + Old English
      • problem with it being translated into English
        • anybody can read it
    • King James
      • 24th March 1603 (Crowned)
      • protestant
      • After the Gun Powder plot he became a lot stricter
      • Daemonologie
        • about vampires, witches and werewolves
    • Regicide
      • punishment was hanging, whipping and cutting up
  • Bible
    • Burned copies
    • written in Hebrew + Latin + Old English
    • problem with it being translated into English
      • anybody can read it

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