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The Scottish King: Macbeth and the Psychotherapist - A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781915115331
Publisher: Edward Everett Root
Published: Jun 28 2024
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Who is Macbeth? Why is there so much superstition about his story that actors are frightened to mention his name backstage, for fear of bad luck? Is the play 'cursed' and if so, by whom and why? What is the relationship between this drama and the accession to the English throne of a King from Scotland?
Psychotherapist Jacob Fortune returns to seventeenth century England to investigate, starting with the Scottish King. What sort of man is he? Is he kind, pious and generous as he would like his people to believe, or is he duplicitous, narcissistic and sexually manipulative, as rumour has it?
Jacob's mission takes him on an adventure between London and Wilton House in Wiltshire, where the King goes, when fleeing the plague in London.
But elsewhere, Jacob's task is both hindered and helped by his twin sister Jackie and her headstrong partner Ever.
At home in the 21st century, a member of the House of Commons, with an ego far larger than his ability, seeks psychotherapeutic help from Amelia Angel, team leader at 4 Psychotherapists 4U.
Jacob, and his companion Spikey the cat, hold up a mirror to society, exploring issues which are also relevant today: the boundaries between truth and lies; fiction and reality; privilege and the abuse of power.
This tongue-in-cheek detective story provides a 'novel' introduction to Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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