![]() ![]() Under examination, however, their arguments fail to convince. Instead, with a few notable exceptions, they have argued that there are many topical allusions to events in England that date the play to 1606, three years after James VI of Scotland became King of England. Generally, Shakespeare scholars today simply pay no attention to the firsthand knowledge of Scotland that is demonstrated in Macbeth. Six of these scholars, however, unwittingly provide much of the evidence supporting Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, as the true author of Macbeth. Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,Ī review of historical documents and topical allusions in Macbeth shows that the author knew a great deal about Scotland and that he knew it long before 1606, which orthodox scholars argue was the year it was written by William Shakspere of Stratford-on-Avon. Brief Chronicles & Other Past Journals Expandĭoes Macbeth reference the 1567 murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley?Īwake! Awake! Ring the alarum-bell:-murder and treason!. ![]()
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