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Macbeth as Flattery for King James I

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Created January 8, 2026

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Shakespeare wrote Macbeth as a massive suck-up to King James I. It is basically

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17th-century fan fiction designed to keep the playwright from getting fired. The play dropped

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in 1606 right when James took over, and the guy was obsessed with hunting witches.

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He even wrote a book called Demonology. That is exactly why the play opens with the weird sisters.

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To us, witches are just Halloween costumes, but back then, people were terrified

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they would actually ruin their lives. Shakespeare turned a political thriller into a supernatural

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horror just to please one guy.

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