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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... and also suggested a number of the questions that I posed to the contributors to this volume . At the head of the book are three studies of Macbeth's themes and structure . Various ideas are followed through the 1 Introduction.
... and also suggested a number of the questions that I posed to the contributors to this volume . At the head of the book are three studies of Macbeth's themes and structure . Various ideas are followed through the 1 Introduction.
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... head off and sent it as a present to Duncan . In the play the bleeding Captain describes a much stranger image of death . Macbeth , brandishing his sword , ' which smok'd with bloody execution ' , as if burning with rage , or steaming ...
... head off and sent it as a present to Duncan . In the play the bleeding Captain describes a much stranger image of death . Macbeth , brandishing his sword , ' which smok'd with bloody execution ' , as if burning with rage , or steaming ...
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... head , both suggests Macduff ( ' Beware the thane of Fife ' ) , and anticipates the bringing on of the head of the dead Macbeth at the end of the play . The second , a bloody child , seems at once an image of birth and death , saying to ...
... head , both suggests Macduff ( ' Beware the thane of Fife ' ) , and anticipates the bringing on of the head of the dead Macbeth at the end of the play . The second , a bloody child , seems at once an image of birth and death , saying to ...
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... head is brought on , probably as in Holinshed's account , on a pole , recalling the armed head among the apparitions of IV.i , and the bloody head of Banquo's ghost . If Macbeth's head was brought on in this way at the Globe ( a ...
... head is brought on , probably as in Holinshed's account , on a pole , recalling the armed head among the apparitions of IV.i , and the bloody head of Banquo's ghost . If Macbeth's head was brought on in this way at the Globe ( a ...
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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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