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TOIL AND TROUBLE
An engraving reproduces Henry
Fuseli’s 1783 painting of the witches
from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth.
First performed in 1606, the play was
a compliment to the newly crowned
king of England, James I, who had
published a book on witchcraft in 1597.
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