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Also the "Banquo's sons will be kings" prophecy that leads Macbeth to have him killed was put in there to flatter James about the legendary origins of the Stuarts. Probably also to confer legitimacy on this new foreign dynasty sitting the English throne.

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Absolutely. Shakespeare how to flatter.

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