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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]], and merely three years after King James I took the crown.  The play is a bit of a tribute to him, who was an expert in analyzing witchcraft and even wrote a book about it that was published in 1597.

Politically, Macbeth addresses both power in Scotland and a secret evil scheme.  It was written merely a year after the so-called [[Gunpowder Plot]], and merely three years after King James I took the crown.  The play is a bit of a tribute to him, who was an expert in analyzing witchcraft and even wrote a book about it that was published in 1597.

In this play Shakespeare coins an extraordinary number of new words for the [[English]] language.<ref>https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/macbeth-and-shakespeares-linguistic-innovation</ref>  This play is also cited as an example demonstrating that Shakespeare was a [[conservative]].<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/08/shakespeares-plays-living-arguments-for-conservatism/375362/</ref>

This play is one of Shakespeare's shortest, at only 17,121 words,<ref>https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/plays_numwords.php</ref> and yet it coins an extraordinary number of new words for the [[English]] language.<ref>https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/macbeth-and-shakespeares-linguistic-innovation</ref>  This play is also cited as an example demonstrating that Shakespeare was a [[conservative]].<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/08/shakespeares-plays-living-arguments-for-conservatism/375362/</ref>

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