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In a novel titled for a location in this play, the billionaire Robert Lemoine uses the poison 1080 to kill members of a gardening collective. In this play, a member of a group threatens to go to Aleppo to get revenge on a sailor’s wife. (10[3])This play’s title (10[1])character says (10[2])“She should have died (10[3])hereafter” (10[2])after (10[1])learning (10[1])of (10[1])the death of a woman who thinks that character is too full of “the milk of human kindness.” (10[6]-5[1])In this play, (10[3]-5[1])a character describes (10[1])life as (10[1])“a tale / Told by an idiot” (10[2])in a soliloquy (-5[1])before he notices that a (10[1])forest (10[2]-5[1])appears to be moving. (10[3])This play’s protagonist hears a prophecy (10[1])about a time (10[1])when “Birnam Wood… (10[1])shall come (10[1])against (10[1])him” (10[1])from the Weird Sisters. (10[3])For 10 points, name this tragedy (10[1])by Shakespeare about the killer of King Duncan, set in Scotland. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Macbeth [or The Tragedy of Macbeth] (The novel in the first line is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.)
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