Shakespeare Context Flashcards

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Kingship (era)

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Jacobean era so king James 1 was on the throne and was a patron to Shakespeare’s plays

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Kingship

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Shakespeare presented kingship as an incorruptible responsibility to demonstrate the importance of monarchy’s responsibility in choosing to value the people’s wishes. And also the importance of having a a responsible monarch on the throne. He uses Macbeth to represent what’s not good

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