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In Shakespeare’s the title character’s wife is power-hungry and scheming. Seduced by the witches’ prophecy that Macbeth will be “king hereafter”, she convinces her husband that the way to secure this new job title is to murder the current king, Duncan. Macbeth obligingly does so, but the “borrowed robes” worn by the new king and queen soon fit poorly: he becomes increasingly