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Cawdor
Cawdor (kôˈdər) [key], village, Highland, NE Scotland, SW of Nairn. Cawdor Castle, the earliest remaining piece dating from 1454, was represented by Shakespeare, following tradition, as the scene of the slaying (1040) of Duncan by Macbeth.
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- Nairn, town, Scotland - Nairn Nairn , town (1991 pop. 7,721), Highland, N Scotland, at the mouth of the Nairn River on ...
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act I, Scene III - Where hast thou been, sister?
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act I, Scene V - They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV - Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet return'd?
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act I, Scene II - What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.
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