Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... Duncan after Malcolm has been nominated as 'successor in the kingdome', but in the play Macbeth has already imagined the death of the King before the advancement of Malcolm is mentioned in I.iv, echoing in his word 'fantastical ...
... Duncan is his kinsman, his King, his guest in his own home, and, Shakespeare suggests, a surrogate father-figure, and a holy man. Here again Holinshed's account is transformed, in which Duncan and Macbeth are roughly the same age, while ...
... Duncan's general in the field , Macbeth might be expected to fit Bacon's conception in ' Of Ambition ' : ' Good ... Duncan . At this moment of revulsion against the killing of the King , We will proceed no further in this business , ( I ...
... Duncan is already an idea familiar to her , even to the murder weapon , the ' keen knife ' that is to do the deed ( I.v.49 ) . If the thought of murdering Duncan is already there , so to speak , in the minds of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth ...
... Duncan , record his difficul- ties in bridging that gap . His sense of the enormity of the act is made all the more impressive in relation to the Weird Sisters , whose stark malevolence is brought home in their vindictiveness towards ...
Contents
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The kingdom the power and the glory | 30 |
visual effects in Macbeth | 54 |
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the eighteenth | 73 |
194680 at StratforduponAvon | 87 |
Multiplying villainies of nature | 113 |
History politics and Macbeth | 155 |
Macbeth and witchcraft | 189 |
Hurt minds | 210 |
Directing Macbeth | 231 |
Afterword | 249 |
Index | 255 |