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I think Shakespeare fails to develop sufficiently the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth early in the play, so their murderous ambition seems awkward. Of course, Shakespeare's audiences would have likely already known the story, as very few plotlines in Shakespeare are original, and so this may have been less troublesome to his audiences than to modern ones.

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