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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... consequences ; systems theory is the particular psychopatho- logical means he has used , being especially relevant to the dramatic presentation of man and wife involved together in a crime against a person with whom they have further ...
... consequences ; systems theory is the particular psychopatho- logical means he has used , being especially relevant to the dramatic presentation of man and wife involved together in a crime against a person with whom they have further ...
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... consequence with the renewed sense of challenge , and he goes off resolved to bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat . ( I.vii . 79-80 ) She is oblivious to the terror of the feat , but succeeds in making it again for him ...
... consequence with the renewed sense of challenge , and he goes off resolved to bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat . ( I.vii . 79-80 ) She is oblivious to the terror of the feat , but succeeds in making it again for him ...
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... consequence she had not foreseen when she said , " The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures ' ( II.ii.53-4 ) . For Macbeth the murder of Duncan was the equivalent in mountaineering terms of scaling Everest , and alter this he has ...
... consequence she had not foreseen when she said , " The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures ' ( II.ii.53-4 ) . For Macbeth the murder of Duncan was the equivalent in mountaineering terms of scaling Everest , and alter this he has ...
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... consequence ' ( I.vii.3 ) . Although Macbeth felt the weight of the consequences of the murder , that we but teach Bloody instructions , which being taught return To plague th'inventor , ( I.vii.8-10 ) he did not foresee what they would ...
... consequence ' ( I.vii.3 ) . Although Macbeth felt the weight of the consequences of the murder , that we but teach Bloody instructions , which being taught return To plague th'inventor , ( I.vii.8-10 ) he did not foresee what they would ...
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... consequences include something he had not bargained for at all , the ' strange infirmity ' ( III.iv.86 ) that unmans him in trembling , as his murders leave him still ' bound in To saucy doubts and fears ' ( III.iv.24-5 ) . ยท The ...
... consequences include something he had not bargained for at all , the ' strange infirmity ' ( III.iv.86 ) that unmans him in trembling , as his murders leave him still ' bound in To saucy doubts and fears ' ( III.iv.24-5 ) . ยท The ...
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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