But all such plagues, calamities and troubles[…]I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to our common enemie that calleth himselfe King.

[…] Since holy David's seat; which, of especial grace, / Doth lend that noble name to that unnobled place.

I have never favoured the witchless approach to Macbeth. Once the necromantic imperative driving the central characters has been hacked out, the play turns into pointless, gory thriller.

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