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Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare which is estimated to have been first performed in 1606. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.