Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Macbeth: Historical Context




Top to bottom: family tree from John Leslie, De origine, moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum (1578); title-page of King James's Daemonologie (1597); portrait of King James by Daniel Mytens (1621); portrait of Martin Luther by the Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1532); portrait of Desiderius Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger (1523).