FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Malcolm
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Macduff
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King Edward
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edward the Confessor, the English King in Macbeth, was the first to practice this “cure*. *” In *Macbeth, * the Doctor says heaven has given King Edward’s hand “sanctity” (4.3.
Detailed explanation-2: -For this reason, the disease was called “the king’s evil, ” the evil the king had the power to heal. Edward the Confessor, who ruled from 1042 to 1066, was the first English king to cure the king’s evil with his touch. He anointed a sick woman’s throat with water and made the sign of the cross above it.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was later said in the play that Edward had the ability to cure Macbeth of this evil that consumed him, and is praised with such abilities by Malcolm. The king is also mentioned earlier by Lennox as the most pious Edward.
Detailed explanation-4: -This scene also includes a passage in which it is reported that England’s king, Edward the Confessor, has provided more than political aid to Malcolm; he has been healing the sick by supernatural means.