Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 49 IS - no. 2 T2 - Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter SP - 9-10 ID - bbbc886 T1 - "Dating Macbeth" AU - Waugaman, Richard M PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - Gunpowder Plot LA - English AB - Argues that Thomas Bell's use of "equivocation" in his Anatomy of Popish Tyranny refutes the common assumption that the term in Macbeth alludes to the 1606 Gunpowder Plot and thus dates the play before Edward de Vere's death (here assumed to be the author of the Shakespeare canon). ER -