Macbeth“ contained contextual information of William Warners Chapt-94 („Of Makbeth the Tyrants“)
Expert Prof.Jonathan Bate in his Shakespeare MOOC course on Macbeth (7-4, the weird sisters) unfortunatley didn't explain how significant early ideas of contempory writers related to Macbeth (1606, 1615) reached Shakespeares First folio.
The First Folio text(1623) of „Macbeth“ must have been altered by „late“ hands compared to earlier versions [no more existent]. Shakespeare‘s only print of „Macbeth“ in the First Folio strangely included verses from scenes of the play „The Witch(1615)“ by Thomas Middleton based in part on an episode in Machiavelli's Florentine History. –
„Macbeth“ also contained contextual information of William Warners Chapt-94 („Of Makbeth the Tyrants“) newly added in „A Continuance of Albions England (1606), in which he reports on the story of the „Fairies“ (the weird elfes) who foretold the fate of Fleahys father.
Does Prof.Bate assume that Shakespeare plagiarized from "William Warner" or "Thomas Middleton"?
Why there does't seem to exist an interpretation of the meaning of Warners strange Title emblem? Two elevations [identities] with two flowers, a marigold and a violet, reminding on a phrase in Shakespeares "Pericles".
"The purple Violet , and Marigold , shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave)
Shakespeare and his World - MOOC
