Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... 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 worship . D.J. Palmer's contri- bution starts from an examination of ...
... breaks new ground in Macbeth is in his deeper study of the nature of ambition , which is the special concern of this essay . Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an eagerness to gain 8 Themes and structure.
... and elementary level as merely concerned with power . What we have witnessed is something much more complex . If anyone embodies this cruder sense of ambition it is Lady Macbeth , whose one thought in the 24 Themes and structure.
... concern was to probe further in the last three acts into what happens then , into the way he becomes a prisoner of his own imagination , bound into doubts and fears , and is able to achieve release from these only at the appalling cost ...
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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 |