The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1079  Tuesday, 23 May 2000.

[1]     From:   Michael Cohen <
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        Date:   Monday, 22 May 2000 10:45:03 -0700
        Subj:   Re: SHK 11.1074 The Macbeth Home

[2]     From:   John Ramsay <
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        Date:   Tuesday, 23 May 2000 00:53:06 -0400
        Subj:   Re: SHK 11.1074 The Macbeth Home


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From:           Michael Cohen <
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Date:           Monday, 22 May 2000 10:45:03 -0700
Subject: 11.1074 The Macbeth Home
Comment:        Re: SHK 11.1074 The Macbeth Home

Skip Nicholson <
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>"When and why does Macbeth leave Inverness and go to Dunsinane? Is it
>because the former has a 'pleasant seat' and the latter is a fortress?"

Shakespeare doesn't say. But Macbeth, according to Holinshed, if I
recall correctly, was King for ten years, so he had plenty of time to
establish seats in a number of places.

Michael E. Cohen
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From:           John Ramsay <
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Date:           Tuesday, 23 May 2000 00:53:06 -0400
Subject: 11.1074 The Macbeth Home
Comment:        Re: SHK 11.1074 The Macbeth Home

Hi, he believes the prophesies.  And the castle is referred to as 'great
Dunsinane' which will 'laugh a siege to scorn.' Two reasons to make his
stand there.

As for Inverness, I have never seen it documented but have always
understood it was Lady Macbeth's family seat which Macbeth would have
acquired by marrying her.

John Ramsay
Welland Ontario