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Double, Double: Paradox in Macbeth By August 7, 1606, the day on which some historians claim Macbeth was first performed, William Shakespeare’s two tetralogies of English history plays were by some estimates already seven years behind him. A new king had come from the north in 1603 to unify the crowns of England and Scotland, an accession that gave Shakespeare, then halfway through his career, a new patron and new politics to negotiate. A long-standing reading of Macbeth rests upon the fo...