From Hampton Court to Globe Theatre:The Three Myths and Time Writing in Macbeth
The Macbeth myth,the Stuart myth and the classical goddess Hecate constitute the ideological basis of Macbeth.Three highly explanatory mythological clues show that Shakespeare,who was promoted to court playwright at the change of dynasty,observed the dangerous political situation of James I,and thought about the sharp national conflicts between England and Scot-land.Based on the common consciousness of world order and time in the Renaissance,the Stuart myth provided a dramatic so-lution to the problem of the royal lineage that troubled the king.In the process from court theater to folk theater,Shakespeare acquiesced to Hecate's moral edification and dramatic adjustment of replacing the devil as the master of the three witches,which reflected the tragic poet's concern for the common people in the great changes of time.Macbeth presents the poet's soul as coldly prudent,free and profound in the midst of time and political constraints.