Richard Franks - Teaching Gen Z Shakespeare - Macbeth edition!

Welcome to Cawdor Castle! I’ve recently had a few requests for a video on this castle, so here’s one I made last year! The castle is well known to Shakespeare fans as ‘Macbeth’s Castle’, and the location of his infamous plotting to become King after becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Alas, the real castle was built well after ‘Macbeth’ had died. However, a stranger, but truer tale is connected to it. William Calder, Thane of Cawdor, was granted permission to fortify the area. He loaded up his donkey