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  1. Legacy

    3/3How later plays saw Shakespeare still alert to the troubled Jacobean world around him.

  2. Equivocation

    2/3In the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, Macbeth captures the anxiety of the time.

  3. Incertainties

    1/3There was an anxious mood in 1603 as a new royal dynasty rose to power.