FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Edward the Confessor
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Richard the Lionheart
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Henry VIII
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Edward Longshanks
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English king Edward the Confessor (r. 1042-1066 CE) joined forces with Duncan I’s exiled son Malcolm, and their army defeated Macbeth at Dunsinane in 1054 CE. Macbeth then died in a skirmish with rebels in 1057 CE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s Macbeth provides a great example of this type of placation. Macbeth, written in 1606, follows a tale of witchcraft, regicide, and the ultimate punishment of death with no legacy, quite similar the primary concerns facing King James I of England, the monarch who ascended the throne in 1603.
Detailed explanation-3: -Probably written in 1605-1606, Macbeth was first performed for King James I of England less than a year after the infamous Gunpowder plot in which a group of Catholics attempted to blow up the king and the English parliament.