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Hello, Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of his greatest

tragedies, fast-moving, unsettling, bloody, and compelling.

Three which is prophesy, he'll be King one day,

and it makes that property true almost the next day,

murdering King Duncan as he sleeps,

and he's a guest at Macbeth's home.

And so I explore that brutal world

where a few boundaries are distinct between safe and unsafe.

Friend and foe, real and unreal, man and beast,

until Macbeth too is slaughtered.

With me to discuss Macbeth, our Ken and Ryan,

a Maritius Professor of English Literature,

at Royal Holloway University of London.

David Skulkbeck, Professor of Shakespeare Studies

at Queen Mary University of London,

and director, the Centre for Global Shakespeare.

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