Macbeth (TRIH ep 104)
1606 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the real history behind Shakespeare's Macbeth, contrasting the effective 11th-century king Macbeth of Moray with the murderous dramatized tyrant. They map early medieval Scotland's patchwork of Pictish, Gaelic (Dalriadan), Brittonic (Strathclyde) and Northumbrian territories, the impact of Viking attacks, and the dynastic complexities from Kenneth MacAlpin through Malcolm II and Duncan.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1606
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)