ABSTRACT
In recent decades, many critics of Macbeth have considered the ambiguities produced by the play and by the history that informs the play.1 Their analyses of the questionable legitimacy of the patrilineal system, the inconsistency of the characters, the pattern of repetition and the pervasive violence in the play and its historical sources contest the recuperative construction of Macbeth as a coherent narrative that depicts the triumph of good over evil and pays tribute to James I’s lineage and theories of political patriarchalism.
