Macbeth context research

Macbeth context research

1. the divine right

   • The divine right is this idea that kings were chosed by God himself. And king James the first took advatnages of this the most basically turning in to a dicator.
     • Because of this idea it was offen frowned upon to kill a King back then. But William the conquer inorged this buy getting the popes blessing in 10066 witch meant that he god of he side. So to most the divine right was very important.
       • The divine right links to social hierarchy witch means that that it goes the king then the clerk, then the noblity, then eerybody else

2. Jacobean era

   • why is it called the jacobean era
     • The Jacobean era was the time when James I was King of England, between 1603 and 1625. We call it the Jacobean'era and not the Jamesian era because Jacobus is the Latin version of the name James.
       • The Jacobean era was between the years 24 March 1603 – 27 March 1625

3. The reformation

   • Reformation, also called Protestant Reformation, the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century
     • . Its greatest leaders undoubtedly were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic, and social effects,
       • the Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity.

4. Witchcraft in the 1600s

   • Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563 although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484.
     • in 1604, the year following James I's accession to the English throne, the and others to bring the penalty of death without benefit of clergy to any one who invoked evil spirits or communed with familiar spirits.

5. The Gunpowder Plot

   • The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to blow up England's King James I (1566-1625) and the Parliament on November 5, 1605. The plot was organized by Robert Catesby (c. 1572-1605) in an effort to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English government.
     • The intrstering thing is that they were close to Shakespeare , even though shakespeare wasn't envoled in the gunpowder plot he was still close to guy