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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... present completing a study of Wardship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England . Brian Morris was until recently Professor of English at the University of Sheffield ; in 1980 he became Principal of St David's University College , Lampeter ...
... present completing a study of Wardship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England . Brian Morris was until recently Professor of English at the University of Sheffield ; in 1980 he became Principal of St David's University College , Lampeter ...
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... present book has been commissioned . As editor I have not attempted to develop a single interpretation or approach , but rather to provide a wide range of studies that respect the individuality of the text and examine it from different ...
... present book has been commissioned . As editor I have not attempted to develop a single interpretation or approach , but rather to provide a wide range of studies that respect the individuality of the text and examine it from different ...
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... this volume in assessing our present knowledge of this great play . All quotations from Shakespeare's plays and all references to them are from Peter Alexander's edition , London , 1958 . John Russell Brown 3 Introduction.
... this volume in assessing our present knowledge of this great play . All quotations from Shakespeare's plays and all references to them are from Peter Alexander's edition , London , 1958 . John Russell Brown 3 Introduction.
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... present fears and horrible imaginings. He attributes the suggestion or image to 'supernatural soliciting', as if the Weird Sisters have incited or importuned him, and are responsible for the disturbance of his mind; but they have merely ...
... present fears and horrible imaginings. He attributes the suggestion or image to 'supernatural soliciting', as if the Weird Sisters have incited or importuned him, and are responsible for the disturbance of his mind; but they have merely ...
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... present in Macbeth's, I dare do all that may become a man, Who dares do more is none. (I.vii.41–4) (I.vii.46–7) What does it 'become' a man to do? In one sense this suggests actions that grace a man, as in the penitent death of Cawdor ...
... present in Macbeth's, I dare do all that may become a man, Who dares do more is none. (I.vii.41–4) (I.vii.46–7) What does it 'become' a man to do? In one sense this suggests actions that grace a man, as in the penitent death of Cawdor ...
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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