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Which of William Shakespeare's playes has been said to refer to the gunpowder plot of 1605?
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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.
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Which of William Shakespeare's play has been said to refer tp the ''Gunpowder Plot?
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".
Which of William Shakespeare's play has been said to refer to the Gunpowder Plot?
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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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".
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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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