| LC control no. | sh2010006869 |
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| Topical heading | Banquo (Legendary character) |
| See also | Legends--Scotland |
| Found in | Work cat.: The ghost of Banquo in Macbeth's seat ... take any shape but that, & my firm nerves shall never tremble ... Macbeth [act III, scene 4] [graphic], 1783. Riverside Shakespeare, 1997: Index to the characters in the plays (Banquo; Macbeth) Quiller-Couch, A. The workmanship of "Macbeth," in North American review 200 (707), 1914 via JSTOR May 11, 2010: p. 581 (The material for Macbeth will be found in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of Scotland, first published in 1578 which records the prophecy to Banquho, "contrarily thou in deede shall not reigne at all, but of thee shall be borne which shall governe the Scottish Kingdome by long order of continuall descent"; James VI of Scotland, a descendant of Banquho, had come to be James I of England) Williams, G.W. Macbeth, King James's play in South Atlantic review 47 (2), 1982 via JSTOR, May 11, 2010: pp. 13-14 (the narrative account behind Shakespeare's Macbeth derives from Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland; story of a Scottish thane Macbeth; in the legend of Macbeth, Shakespeare also found references to Banquho, the Thane of Lochquhaber, a friend of Macbeth's, who gathered the finances due to the king; Macbeth killed Banquho) pp. 18-19 (Modern historians discount many of James's ancestors as being mythical figures, but James did not; we may be sure that, for the purposes of this play, Shakespeare did not. James's claim to England by his lineal descent was accepted by the English as fuly justifying his right to the English throne; Banquo and Fleance's line had joined the royal line a trifling nine generations before James, but their line was the Stuart line, the name of the royal house; the line from Fergus to Banquo had passed according to the myth-makers from father to son for seventy-five generations; Shakespeare inserted the legend of Banquo into the middle of the legend of Macbeth) |
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