King Duncan
The origin of the character lies in a narrative of the historical Donnchad mac Crinain , King of Scots , in Raphael Holinshed's 1587 "The Chronicles of England , Scotland , and Ireland , " a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries . 
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