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The Gunpowder Plot, a plot by fanatical Catholics to blow up the king and Parliament with gunpowder, was discovered on November 5, 1605, and Guy Fawkes Day is still celebrated on November 5 to commemorate it. (Guy Fawkes was one of the conspirators). One of the organizers of the plot, Father Garnett, had published a pamphlet on how to equivocate, or lie without really lying, and the words "equivocate" and "equivocator" appear throughout the play, particularly in the Porter's speech.

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