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‘House of Cards’ and the Lady Macbeth Effect

Lady Macbeth was a total boss.  Murder aside (PSA: nobody here is sanctioning murder), she wielded power over her husband in a time where doing so was completely unheard of. She masterminded a plot, made somebody else execute it, and while she – spoiler alert – still died at the end of the play, Macbeth as we know it wouldn’t exist without her vision, her prowess, and her ambition.  And again, this is no way an excuse for her behaviour (I really can’t make it clear enough that nobody here is sa