Macbeth the King (2014)
“To write a novel on the life of MacBeth, set in the mists of eleventh-century Celtic Scotland, demands much more than the normal. Especially when so much has to be "unlearned" on account of Shakespeare's tremendous play, brilliant drama but a travesty of history and of MacBeth's and his wife's characters and careers. Few historical royal couples, surely, have been so grievously traduced.
Much that follows has to be personal interpretation and guesswork, for in the main only the major featur...es and details have survived the nine centuries and the deliberate destruction of records, by the Romish churchmen, Edward the Hammer of the Scots, the Reformation upheavals, and so on. Nevertheless, enough remains to reveal a strange and exciting story of strong characters in a period of drastic change, and a notable man-and-wife partnership. Where our own chroniclers fail us, or have been silenced, those of Ireland and the makers of the Norse, Orkney and Icelandic sagas, sometimes come to the rescue.MoreLess
Much that follows has to be personal interpretation and guesswork, for in the main only the major featur...es and details have survived the nine centuries and the deliberate destruction of records, by the Romish churchmen, Edward the Hammer of the Scots, the Reformation upheavals, and so on. Nevertheless, enough remains to reveal a strange and exciting story of strong characters in a period of drastic change, and a notable man-and-wife partnership. Where our own chroniclers fail us, or have been silenced, those of Ireland and the makers of the Norse, Orkney and Icelandic sagas, sometimes come to the rescue.MoreLess
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