Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... killing of Duncan, record his difficulties in bridging that gap. His sense of the enormity of the act is made all the more impressive in relation to the Weird Sisters, whose stark malevolence is brought home in their vindictiveness ...
... killing of the King. It is no ordinary murder, but rather the equivalent in its own kind of, say, breaking through the sound barrier for the first time. Macbeth fully recognises the 'deep damnation' of such a deed, and sees what it will ...
... kill'd , All murder'd . ( Richard II , III.ii.156-60 ) In writing his early plays he had the impact of Marlowe to absorb , who had broken the moralising pattern of such stories as mirrors for magistrates by showing Tamburlaine striding ...
... kills for pleasure : 1 The truth is , the Characters of Shakespeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than ... killing of the King , We will proceed no further in this business , ( I.vii.31 ) Macbeth reduces all that has been ...
... killing Duncan ' , has satisfied many , although it does not account for a sense that somehow , in spite of everything , Macbeth retains an heroic stature at the end , when ' in the very act of proclaiming that life " is a tale told by ...
Contents
7 | |
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 |