Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... begin to understand this in his curses at the end : curse Lucifer That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven ; ( Scene XIX , 11.181-2 ) but in Marlowe's play hell as deprivation remains merely a concept . It remained for Shakespeare ...
... begins to lose him . He was at first horrified at his own deed in killing Duncan , but can return to look on the dead King and kill the grooms without a qualm : Here lay Duncan , His silver skin lac'd with his golden blood ; And his ...
... begins also to bring home to her what Macbeth has felt all through , not how easy , but how difficult it is both to kill a king , and then to be ' clear ' of the deed , and ' trammel up the consequence ' ( I.vii.3 ) . Although Macbeth ...
... in that flood of blood he has spilt , he begins to realise that the excitement has gone , and the only way left for him is the repetitive boredom of further bloodshed as he ensures that ' All causes shall 20 Themes and structure.
... begins from ' the big wars That makes ambition virtue ' ( Othello , III.iii.353-4 ) . In Macbeth he went further . To start with he brilliantly dramatised that state of the man seized by ambition , ' a proud covetousness , or a dry ...
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 |