- sought to please King James I (use to be King James the IV but then Queen Elizabeth died and became the I)
- not the usual Shakespeare play, intense and complex though.
-Shakespeare's chief source for Macbeth was Holinshed's Chronicles
- addresses a political agenda of King James I
- Background is important, go figure.
- King James was into witch craft and thought it was real. Wrote a book about demonology, which is why the book is weird)
- murderers everywhere
- Theme - "what is a man"
- Lady Macbeth, apparently is crazy
- Who's the Third Murderer?
- MacBeth a homicidal crazy person?
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