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Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)

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Macbeth - A Play About Contrast

The play opens with these three witches speaking in binaries. Shakespeare has used Holland Shed's chronicles extensively as his source material for the play. The universe of this tragedy is a universe of black and white and of course red. It's a universe of foul and fair, good and evil. And it's a universe in which battles are lost and won.

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