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After the Union, the English were tied to 'incorrigibly violent' Scotland

James Thurber, the great American humorist, had an original take on Macbeth: he treated it as a mystery to be solved. Inspired by an encounter with avid reader of whodunnits, who had accidentally bought Macbeth thinking it was a detective story, he reread it late into the night. By morning, he had uncovered who really had assassinated the king, and it wasn’t the Thane of Cawdor. Next, he was going to solve Hamlet too.