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'''''Macbeth''''' is a [[tragedy]] written by [[William Shakespeare]], set in Scotland. Although a tragedy the main character becomes a usurper, who at the end of the play is deposed.  This play is thought to have been written around 1606, a half-decade after Shakespeare wrote [[Hamlet]].
 
'''''Macbeth''''' is a [[tragedy]] written by [[William Shakespeare]], set in Scotland. Although a tragedy the main character becomes a usurper, who at the end of the play is deposed.  This play is thought to have been written around 1606, a half-decade after Shakespeare wrote [[Hamlet]].
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This play expounds on [[manliness]], more than any of Shakespeare's works.
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This play expounds on [[manliness]], more than any of Shakespeare's works. It is also considered to explore the most [[evil]] of Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies, and was the last chronologically.
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Politically, Macbeth addresses both power in Scotland and a secret evil scheme.  It was written merely a year after the so-called [[Gunpowder Plot]].
    
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