... these rearrange the chain of events to control the suspense of the play better, and have little to do with the personalities of the main characters. Shakespeare's motives for his major changes to Holinshed's tale of Macbeth were to flatter the king of England at the time, King James I. Shakespeare's source of information for the play was a source of misinformation. However, this ... have since been lost, Holinshed pieced together a framework that later became the basis for his historical novel. The genealogies of the main characters in the account, Macbeth, and Duncan, are quickly descr...

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