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Shakespeare's Macbeth-The Deadly Dagger Death Of King Duncan
DEADLY Dagger DEATH OF KING DUNCAN

The death of king Duncan was shocking and thrilling for all residents who were in the castle the night of the suspicious killing when they awoke and were clear of the drunken poison they drank the previous evening. Where the king was found swimming in his own pool of blood from a dagger. No one was able to remember any suspects or when the crime may have occurred. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were in shock when one of Duncan’s men went to awake their king. Unfortunately aware of when An elder in the village revealed that in his lifetime he has never witnessed such

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