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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... ambition in Macbeth R.A. Foakes 7 2 The kingdom , the power and the glory in Macbeth 30 Brian Morris 3 ' A new Gorgon ' : visual effects in Macbeth 54 D.J. Palmer Part 2 THE PLAY IN THE THEATRE 4 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the ...
... ambition in Macbeth R.A. Foakes 7 2 The kingdom , the power and the glory in Macbeth 30 Brian Morris 3 ' A new Gorgon ' : visual effects in Macbeth 54 D.J. Palmer Part 2 THE PLAY IN THE THEATRE 4 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the ...
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... ambition, as the only 'spur' to prick on his intention, and at this point he has talked himself into abandoning the project. Lady Macbeth enters to rouse him by calling him 'coward', invoking a concept of manliness, and reducing the ...
... ambition, as the only 'spur' to prick on his intention, and at this point he has talked himself into abandoning the project. Lady Macbeth enters to rouse him by calling him 'coward', invoking a concept of manliness, and reducing the ...
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... ambition is qualified by his wit and energy ; these plays , and Richard III , nevertheless remain within the conventional pattern . A much more complex study of an ambitious prince is realised in Bolingbroke , who , without seeming to ...
... ambition is qualified by his wit and energy ; these plays , and Richard III , nevertheless remain within the conventional pattern . A much more complex study of an ambitious prince is realised in Bolingbroke , who , without seeming to ...
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... ambitious prince who overreaches himself in murdering the King , and who brings about his own downfall in the end . But it goes ... Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an eagerness to gain 8 Themes and structure.
... ambitious prince who overreaches himself in murdering the King , and who brings about his own downfall in the end . But it goes ... Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an eagerness to gain 8 Themes and structure.
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... Ambition ' : ' Good Commanders in the Warres , must be taken , be they never so Ambitious . And to take a Soldier without Ambition , is to pull off his Spurres . ' Charles Lamb saw further than this in a striking comment provoked by the ...
... Ambition ' : ' Good Commanders in the Warres , must be taken , be they never so Ambitious . And to take a Soldier without Ambition , is to pull off his Spurres . ' Charles Lamb saw further than this in a striking comment provoked by the ...
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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