Kingship

• “A most sainted king” - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
• “Valiant cousin” - Duncan, Act 1 Scene 1
• “Plant thee and labour thee until full of growing” - Duncan
• “there if I grow/harvest is your own“ - Duncan
• “Vaulting ambition“ -
• “Scorched the snake”
• “ Untitled tyrant”
• “ Bleed, bleed poor country” - Act 1 Scene 5
• “Tyrant whos sole name blisters our tongue” - Act 4 Scene 3
• “ The earth was feverous and did shake” - Act 2 Scene 3
• “Offering up a weak, poor, innocent lamb, T’appease an angry god” - Act 4 Scene 3
• “ My poor country” - Malcolm
• “I think our country sinks beneath the yoke/it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/ is added to her other wounds” - Act 4 Scene 3
• Tanistry - kings were elected from a pool of suitable candidates of a relation to the king