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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. This play’s title character says “She should have died hereafter” after learning of the death of a woman who thinks that character is too full of “the milk of human kindness.” (10[1]-5[1])In this play, a character describes life as “a tale / Told by an idiot” in a soliloquy (-5[1])before he notices that a forest appears to be moving. (10[2])This play’s protagonist hears a prophecy (10[1])about a time when “Birnam Wood… shall come against (10[1])him” (10[1])from the Weird Sisters. For 10 points, name this tragedy by Shakespeare about the killer of King Duncan, set in Scotland. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Macbeth [or The Tragedy of Macbeth] (The novel in the first line is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.)
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Mitchell IndekMichigan BMichigan D (DII)75-5
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