I just watched the Denzel Washington Macbeth (yes, I know they went woke with the casting) and I have a new appreciation for the play now that I know more about the history of tyrants and have seen it first hand and can appreciate Macbeth as a big bad villain. The paranoia as he tries to kill every opponent to his power he can is an everlasting theme and continued on hundreds of years later to authoritarian leaders of the 1900s and current day. No doubt people in Shakespeare's time had lived through history and knew about these lessons as well.