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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... evil which is generated largely through their presence in the play ; for this enables Shakespeare to show a more profound spiritual change in Macbeth than in any of his earlier protagonists . Boling- broke and Claudius feel their guilt ...
... evil which is generated largely through their presence in the play ; for this enables Shakespeare to show a more profound spiritual change in Macbeth than in any of his earlier protagonists . Boling- broke and Claudius feel their guilt ...
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... ambition that makes murder itself seem to be a lesser evil than failure to achieve the crown . On the other hand , Lamb's comment reduces to a subordinate role the moral issues which to many have seemed of 9 Images of death.
... ambition that makes murder itself seem to be a lesser evil than failure to achieve the crown . On the other hand , Lamb's comment reduces to a subordinate role the moral issues which to many have seemed of 9 Images of death.
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... evil , yields to temptation in spite of all that his conscience can do to stop him , goes deeper into evil - doing as he is further tempted , sees the approach of retribution , falls into despair , and is brought by retribution to his ...
... evil , yields to temptation in spite of all that his conscience can do to stop him , goes deeper into evil - doing as he is further tempted , sees the approach of retribution , falls into despair , and is brought by retribution to his ...
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... evil ; but his full sense of the terrible nature of the murder he is about to do also makes the over- coming of his own scruples , of the horror he feels , of all the large part of himself that rebels against it , so much the greater ...
... evil ; but his full sense of the terrible nature of the murder he is about to do also makes the over- coming of his own scruples , of the horror he feels , of all the large part of himself that rebels against it , so much the greater ...
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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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