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What high school book is Macbeth in?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Macbeth is the protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, a tragedy about a king's rise to and fall from greatness. Although, this is the most likely high school text the character Macbeth is found in- the play was not his origin.

Seeking favor with the newly crowned King James I, Shakespeare took much of his work from the works of authors who preceded him and his text reflects a clear partiality to the King's Scottish lineage and traditional Scottish views.

Shakespeare drew his concepts for Macbeth from an array of respected Scottish works, which, despite the authors' frequent fictional embellishments, served as historical accounts of the lives of prominent Scottish individuals. These sources included Holinshed's The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Buchanan's The Chronicles of Scotland, 1582, and the King's own Daemonologie.

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15y ago

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