Shakespeare’s Macbeth, from Wikipedia:
A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.
Macbeth – Wikipedia
Now isn’t this basically the olden days story of Mike Richards getting and losing the Jeopardy job? Someone make this.
I know this post is “a bit NPR”, so feel free to read it with some inoffensive plinky-plonk music in the background.