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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... tragedies of Shakespeare , he has directed both Hamlet and Macbeth twice , and Othello once . Michael Hawkins is Reader in History at the University of Sussex and is at present completing a study of Wardship in Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
... tragedies of Shakespeare , he has directed both Hamlet and Macbeth twice , and Othello once . Michael Hawkins is Reader in History at the University of Sussex and is at present completing a study of Wardship in Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
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... tragedies by Shakespeare - most obviously in the presentation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , in the scenes for the witches ... Tragedy of Macbeth as well as possible , and so the present book has been commissioned . As editor I have not ...
... tragedies by Shakespeare - most obviously in the presentation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth , in the scenes for the witches ... Tragedy of Macbeth as well as possible , and so the present book has been commissioned . As editor I have not ...
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... tragedies and , especially , the history plays . R.A. Foakes is concerned with the nature of Macbeth's inner life and motivation , while Brian Morris relates ideas expressed in the play to the central tenets of Christian belief and ...
... tragedies and , especially , the history plays . R.A. Foakes is concerned with the nature of Macbeth's inner life and motivation , while Brian Morris relates ideas expressed in the play to the central tenets of Christian belief and ...
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... tragedy as the fall of great men or women , brought low by fortune's wheel and so exemplifying the mutability of human life , or overreaching themselves and illustrating the retri- bution visited upon the proud and sinful . It was ...
... tragedy as the fall of great men or women , brought low by fortune's wheel and so exemplifying the mutability of human life , or overreaching themselves and illustrating the retri- bution visited upon the proud and sinful . It was ...
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... tragedies , and quite apart from giving the leading actor a well - earned rest , it serves a deeper function . Macbeth has passed beyond the point of no return , and terrible deeds no longer shock or disturb him . What remains in action ...
... tragedies , and quite apart from giving the leading actor a well - earned rest , it serves a deeper function . Macbeth has passed beyond the point of no return , and terrible deeds no longer shock or disturb him . What remains in action ...
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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