--- title: Context Handbook for Macbeth | KS4 Teaching Resource description: Macbeth teaching resource. Access a context handbook for Macbeth, including witchcraft, concepts of tragedy, Globe theatre and more... 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King James’s Witch Hunts 2. Concepts of Tragedy 3. The Divine Right of Kings 4. Good and Evil in Macbeth 5. Going to the Theatre in Shakespeare’s Time 6. The Gunpowder Plot 7. Soliloquies 8. The Form and Structure of Shakespeare’s Language 9. Regicide 10. 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