Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Context of
Macbeth
- William
Shakespeare
- successful playwright
- wrote 36 plays
- wanted to impress James I and
wrote Macbeth to please him
- The Real
Macbeth
- King of Scots from 1040 until his death in 1057
- Differed to the Macbeth portrayed in
Shakespeare's play
- defeated and mortally wounded by
the future king, Malcolm II
- James I of England
- King of England and Scotland
- in power during the Gunpowder Plot
- wrote of Daemonology, which was all
about witchcraft
- victorians were very supersticious
- Witchcraft
- 17th century - people were very supersticious
- believed that there were women who made a pact
with the devil in exchange for supernatural
powers
- the Elizabethans blamed all of their
problems on the witches
- they were very supersticious,
especially James I
- Shakespeare included the
supernatural and the location of
Scotland to appeal to the king
- The Gunpowder
Plot
- 5th November 1605, there was an
attempted assassination of James I
- one of the first acts of terrorism
- The Great Chain of
Being
- hierarchical structure of all matter and life
- thought to have been decreed by God
- the King was a the top, and trees, animals
and minerals were at the bottom
- Macbeth committing regicide = unbalance
- The Divine
Right of Kings
- puts Kings above anything else
- states that they derive the right to rule straight
from the will of God
- Regicide would be seen as the ultimate
offence as it represents going against
God's will