Some people have suggested that Shakespeare's Macbeth was connected with the Gunpowder Plot. It was certainly written at about that time and contains a reference to the "Great Equivocator," Henry Garnet.
Some scholars have tried to link the play Macbeth to the Gunpowder Plot. There is not much connection although the Porter's reference to an "equivocator" is almost certainly a reference to Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest known as "The Great Equivocator".
Some people have tried to link the play Macbeth to the Gunpowder Plot. It is true that the reference to an "equivocator" in the Porter's speech is almost certainly a reference to Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest who was executed as part of the Gunpowder Plot, and who wrote a famous treatise on "equivocation", saying that it was ok to say something which was literally true but implied something false. This would have been a hot topical item at the time the play was written, after 1605.
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This could refer to William Shakespeare's Lost Years - see the related question link below.
Queen Elizabeth I ruled England when Shakespeare came to London. This is why the Elizabethan and Shakespearean refer to the same time period.
The play Macbeth alludes to the Plot
The explosion of gunpowder is a form of what chemists refer to as a redox (reduction/oxidation) reaction.
Some scholars have tried to link the play Macbeth to the Gunpowder Plot. There is not much connection although the Porter's reference to an "equivocator" is almost certainly a reference to Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest known as "The Great Equivocator".
Some people have tried to link the play Macbeth to the Gunpowder Plot. It is true that the reference to an "equivocator" in the Porter's speech is almost certainly a reference to Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest who was executed as part of the Gunpowder Plot, and who wrote a famous treatise on "equivocation", saying that it was ok to say something which was literally true but implied something false. This would have been a hot topical item at the time the play was written, after 1605.
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That was a long time ago. He's now the Duke of Cambridge.
The term 'black powder' can refer to a number of different things. It is mostly used to describe gunpowder, which is used in weapons, explosives and the like.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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