What era was the play written in? - Jacobean Era, What is the Great Chain of Being? - Social structure - King is closest to God, everything and everyone has a set place, What is the Divine Right of Kings? - Belief that the King was chosen by God, How can we link King James to the plot of Macbeth? - Macbeth is a warning play - Shakespeare is warning people not to kill the King by showing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffering, which would please King James as there were plots to kill him, What was society like? Religion - Society was very religious, What what society like? Women - link to Lady Macbeth - Women had no power and no rights - Lady Macbeth subverts people's expectations of women, she is the opposite of a Jacobean woman, What did people think of witches and the supernatural? - People believed in witches and supernatural - would have found the characters scary, Who watched plays? - Everyone - plays were mass entertainment and accessible to everyone,

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