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How Shakespeare inspired terrorists

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The Best Way to Read Macbeth

i think macbeth is a complex play in a complex e. So we think of tragic heroess as people whoare neither fully good nor fully bad, that actually invoke both our pity and our terror. i do think that shakespeare was extra careful, perhaps, with that play because it was soon after e gunpowder. And for my final question, you say in your book, i'm quoting here, literature clearly plays a part in terroristic thinking and in what makes a terrorist. Why is that? Literature, sir? Key, proponent of culture. It's one of the things that we receive, culture that is, on a daily basis, consciously or subconsciously. But doesn

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