In his play macbeth, william shakespeare drew source material fromraphael holinshed's chronicles of british history. compare thetwo passages about the slaying of the rebel macdonald. andwhich answer best describes how shakespeare transforms thepassage from the chronicles in his play? reaten andin the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofo macdonald and leaves it where it is, but in the playshakespeare has macbeth take the body to the king. foundof thein the chronicles, macbeth cuts off the head of the deadmacdonald and hangs it up, but in the play, shakespearedeletes that partsetnenuponin the chronicles, macbeth is portrayed as a cruel man whocuts off macdonald's head, but in the play, shakespearemakes macbeth kinder by having him bury the manpearein the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofmacdonald, but in the play, shakespeare has macbeth killthe man himself.