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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... been troubling his imagination , and he now sees an image of death he cannot face so easily : why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against 12 Themes and structure.
... been troubling his imagination , and he now sees an image of death he cannot face so easily : why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against 12 Themes and structure.
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... face ( Ill.iv.13 ) to report the death of Banquo , and the blood smeared upon the faces of the grooms accused by Macbeth of killing Duncan ( II.ii.50 , 56 ; II iii.114 ) . Macbeth recognises the Ghost simultaneously as real , ' Avaunt ...
... face ( Ill.iv.13 ) to report the death of Banquo , and the blood smeared upon the faces of the grooms accused by Macbeth of killing Duncan ( II.ii.50 , 56 ; II iii.114 ) . Macbeth recognises the Ghost simultaneously as real , ' Avaunt ...
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... face these images and ask for more until he is confronted again by the murdered Banquo , shows how far he has travelled morally and mentally since the opening of the play ; once unable to look on what he has done , or to think of what ...
... face these images and ask for more until he is confronted again by the murdered Banquo , shows how far he has travelled morally and mentally since the opening of the play ; once unable to look on what he has done , or to think of what ...
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... face the challenge of killings of a different kind , and his inner drive , embodied in the air - drawn dagger that marshals him towards Duncan , overcomes for him his revulsion at the deed . It is reinforced by Lady Macbeth : Art thou ...
... face the challenge of killings of a different kind , and his inner drive , embodied in the air - drawn dagger that marshals him towards Duncan , overcomes for him his revulsion at the deed . It is reinforced by Lady Macbeth : Art thou ...
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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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