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Shakespearean characters appear to have had their tax problems.
In the year commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death we are proud to announce that we have been chosen as the exclusive journal to release a new parchment clearly used by the Bard as a source for his play Macbeth (‘the Scottish play’ for those who are reading aloud). Academics will be amazed to learn that the fundamental key to understanding this much loved play is to examine it through the lens of taxation. And the surprising level of tax in the original source makes this magazine the obvious place to publish this ground-breaking discovery. The document was inscribed on slightly blood-stained parchment and was found amid a pile of Jacobean Tolley’s Tax Guides in the stationery cupboard. We have reproduced the document as below.
Ye tax return
Hail to thee Thane of Glamis Thane of Cawdor… Your Majesty King Macbeth totally and utterly undisputed ruler of Scotland...
