Macbeth Attitude Changes
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES
Macbeth was first performed in 1606, three years after James I
succeeded Elizabeth I on the English throne. By that time, William
Shakespeare was the most popular playwright in England, and his
company, which had been called the Chamberlain's Men under Queen
Elizabeth, was renamed the King's Men.
You can see from the subject and content of Macbeth that Shakespeare
was writing to please the new king. At the …
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Let's take a moment to examine one of the imaginary sinners the
Porter says he lets in: "here's an equivocator, that could swear in
both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough
for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven" (lines 8-11).
Equivocation means lying, and we will soon see Macbeth and his wife
doing a lot of that. But remember the Porter's speech: the liar
cannot "equivocate to heav
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