This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

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  This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

  This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. The earliest existing eyewitness account of a performance of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth comes to us from the astrologer Simon Forman, who saw the play at the Globe Theater on April 20,

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