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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... minds 210 Derek Russell Davis Part 5 A DIRECTOR'S VIEW OF THE PLAY 11 Directing Macbeth Peter Hall Afterword John Russell Brown Index 231 249 255 Contributors John Russell Brown is Professor of English at the vi Contents.
... minds 210 Derek Russell Davis Part 5 A DIRECTOR'S VIEW OF THE PLAY 11 Directing Macbeth Peter Hall Afterword John Russell Brown Index 231 249 255 Contributors John Russell Brown is Professor of English at the vi Contents.
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... mind; but they have merely announced that he will be King, and as Macbeth knows, 'chance may crown me Without my stir' (I.iii.143–4). He has realised a new kind of challenge, one which so shakes his 'single state of man', suggesting ...
... mind; but they have merely announced that he will be King, and as Macbeth knows, 'chance may crown me Without my stir' (I.iii.143–4). He has realised a new kind of challenge, one which so shakes his 'single state of man', suggesting ...
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... mind aspiring to beauty and poetry as well as to power and an earthly crown . The Henry VI plays are full of aspiring princes , and culminate in the rise of Gloucester , whose ruthless ambition is qualified by his wit and energy ; these ...
... mind aspiring to beauty and poetry as well as to power and an earthly crown . The Henry VI plays are full of aspiring princes , and culminate in the rise of Gloucester , whose ruthless ambition is qualified by his wit and energy ; these ...
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... mind connected with his deeds . Lamb strikingly linked , perhaps equated , ambition , aspiration and intellectual activity , in a way which now may seem a little eccentric . For on the one hand , the meaning of ambition is more ...
... mind connected with his deeds . Lamb strikingly linked , perhaps equated , ambition , aspiration and intellectual activity , in a way which now may seem a little eccentric . For on the one hand , the meaning of ambition is more ...
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... minds of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , then the notion of Macbeth as tempted needs further scrutiny . The Weird Sisters announce that Macbeth will be king , and since their other prophecy , that he will be Thane of Cawdor , is immediately ...
... minds of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , then the notion of Macbeth as tempted needs further scrutiny . The Weird Sisters announce that Macbeth will be king , and since their other prophecy , that he will be Thane of Cawdor , is immediately ...
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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