jondabomb
Some scholars think that Shakespeare got the idea for this story from Holinshed's Chronicles, a contemporaneous history of the British Isles.
Macbeth
Shakespeare's sources for MacBeth
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jwalsh
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Some scholars think that George Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum is a closer match for the story of MacBeth; this would have been available in Latin during Shakespeare's time.