Since nobody else has mentioned it, from Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth Shakespeare's source for the st

Since nobody else has mentioned it, from Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy have been associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. (I'm not sure but I took "differed from the real Macbeth" to suggest that Holinshed's history might also have differed from the real story?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles (there's a good amount in this article about Shakespeare's embellishments) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml