Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to understand the tragedy of Macbeth and this book provides a wide range of studies that respect the individuality of the text and examine it from different viewpoints. Contents include: Themes and Structure; Characterization and Narrative, Visual Effects, Performance in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Historical and Political Background; Role of Witchcraft; Game Theory. Contributors include: John Russell Brown, Derek Russell Davis, Gareth Lloyd Evans, R A Foakes, Michael Goldman, Robin Grove, Peter Hall, Michael Hawkins, Brian Morris, D J Palmer, Marvin Rosenberg and Peter Stallybrass. |
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... Rosenberg 5 Macbeth : 1946-80 at Stratford - upon - Avon Gareth Lloyd Evans Part 3 ENACTING THE TEXT 73 87 6 ' Multiplying villainies of nature ' 113 Robin Grove 7 Language and action in Macbeth Michael Goldman 140 Part.
... Rosenberg 5 Macbeth : 1946-80 at Stratford - upon - Avon Gareth Lloyd Evans Part 3 ENACTING THE TEXT 73 87 6 ' Multiplying villainies of nature ' 113 Robin Grove 7 Language and action in Macbeth Michael Goldman 140 Part.
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John Russell Brown. 7 Language and action in Macbeth Michael Goldman 140 Part 4 SPECIAL STUDIES 8 History , politics and Macbeth Michael Hawkins 155 9 Macbeth and witchcraft 189 Peter Stallybrass 10 Hurt minds 210 Derek Russell Davis ...
John Russell Brown. 7 Language and action in Macbeth Michael Goldman 140 Part 4 SPECIAL STUDIES 8 History , politics and Macbeth Michael Hawkins 155 9 Macbeth and witchcraft 189 Peter Stallybrass 10 Hurt minds 210 Derek Russell Davis ...
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... action . The words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance . In dramatic structure it is so different from other tragedies by Shakespeare - most obviously in the presentation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , in the scenes ...
... action . The words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance . In dramatic structure it is so different from other tragedies by Shakespeare - most obviously in the presentation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , in the scenes ...
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... a man to do? In one sense this suggests actions that grace a man, as in the penitent death of Cawdor, Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. (I.iv.7–8) At the same time Macbeth's words raise a question about.
... a man to do? In one sense this suggests actions that grace a man, as in the penitent death of Cawdor, Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. (I.iv.7–8) At the same time Macbeth's words raise a question about.
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... action in an attempt to escape from the implications of what he feels he must do , kill Claudius . Superficially , Macbeth seems to return to a more conven- tional mode , and on one level it is much more straight- forwardly a play about ...
... action in an attempt to escape from the implications of what he feels he must do , kill Claudius . Superficially , Macbeth seems to return to a more conven- tional mode , and on one level it is much more straight- forwardly a play about ...
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 |
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