Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... Character of Hamlet Baxter Berry Bradbrook Brennan Brown Clemen Clemen Clemen Clemen Duthie Edwards Ellis-Fermor Ellis-Fermor Evans Foakes Foakes Fraser Frye Gibson Griffith Hawkes Henn Kermode Leishman Mack Muir Muir Muir Muir & O ...
... Pyle XXXIV The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose XXXV Literature and Drama XXXVI Readings on the Character of Hamlet Schanzer Shirley Vickers Wells Williamson FOCUS ON MACBETH JOHN RUSSELL BROWN Routledge Taylor & Francis.
... character . A second way in which Shakespeare breaks new ground in Macbeth is in his deeper study of the nature of ambition , which is the special concern of this essay . Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an ...
... Characters of Shakespeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions , that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters - Macbeth , Richard , even Iago , - we think not ...
... soliloquy here is made actual on the stage , and character- istically , this moment of triumph is also the moment when his sense of terror and guilt are maximised : I am afraid to think what I have done ; 17 Images of death.
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 |