Hello Tablers!
We hope that you are enjoying Tabling: Macbeth!
Just a few clarifications, and notes from our first episode - Tabling: Macbeth Introduction
- James I of England was James VI of Scotland, not James V as I (Ariana) mistakenly stated
- Ariana would also like to clarify that there are scary scenes in King Lear, Act III.vii. in particular
- Henry VIII's son who succeeded him was Edward VI, whose mother was Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour. He was king from 1537-1543 and died at the age of 15. He named his cousin Lady Jane Grey his successor, but it was disputed and she was only queen for 13 days before being succeeded by Henry VIII's first child, Mary I, who reversed the Protestant reforms. Elizabeth I took the throne 1558 and reigned until 1603.
- James I book on the witches was called Daemononlogie