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- Title
'WHAT BLOODY MAN IS THAT?': SIR ROBERT CAREY AND SHAKESPEARE'S BLOODY SERGEANT.
- Authors
Loomis, Catherine
- Abstract
Examines a detail of Robert Carey's encounter with King James VI that may have a bearing on King Duncan's opening line in the play 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. Carey's claim in his memoirs that he learned of the death of Queen Elizabeth I in the same way Macbeth learns of his wife's; Emphasis in the memoirs that James heard of the news of Elizabeth's death from a man covered with blood.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; EARLY modern English drama; CAREY, Robert; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, 1533-1603; DEATH
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2001, Vol 48, Issue 3, p296
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/48.3.296