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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... criticism Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title : Focus on Macbeth . Includes index . Contents : Images of death / R.A . Foakes - The Kingdom , the power , and the glory in Macbeth / Brian Morris - A ...
... criticism Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title : Focus on Macbeth . Includes index . Contents : Images of death / R.A . Foakes - The Kingdom , the power , and the glory in Macbeth / Brian Morris - A ...
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... critic for the Guardian and other journals ; he has published a five - volume guide to Shakespeare's plays and a ... criticism . Michael Goldman is Professor of English at Princeton Uni- versity ; he is author of Shakespeare and the ...
... critic for the Guardian and other journals ; he has published a five - volume guide to Shakespeare's plays and a ... criticism . Michael Goldman is Professor of English at Princeton Uni- versity ; he is author of Shakespeare and the ...
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... critics who see Macbeth as essentially good , when he has ' neither moral sense nor awareness of its existence ' . Such an account of Macbeth may seem a strange , even perverse , reading , but it stems from a genuine problem , and ...
... critics who see Macbeth as essentially good , when he has ' neither moral sense nor awareness of its existence ' . Such an account of Macbeth may seem a strange , even perverse , reading , but it stems from a genuine problem , and ...
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... and the ability to act ' . 13 Holinshed's Chronicle , p . 210 . 14 Ibid . , p . 211 . 15 Shakespearean Criticism , ed . T.M. Raysor , 2 vols ( 1930 ; revised 1960 ) , 11.221 ( a lecture of 1813 ) 28 Themes and structure.
... and the ability to act ' . 13 Holinshed's Chronicle , p . 210 . 14 Ibid . , p . 211 . 15 Shakespearean Criticism , ed . T.M. Raysor , 2 vols ( 1930 ; revised 1960 ) , 11.221 ( a lecture of 1813 ) 28 Themes and structure.
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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 |
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