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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... kind of challenge, one which so shakes his 'single state of man', suggesting something like an earthquake afflicting his individual little kingdom or 'state', that ordinary activity is stifled, and only 'what is not', those 'horrible ...
... kind of challenge, one which so shakes his 'single state of man', suggesting something like an earthquake afflicting his individual little kingdom or 'state', that ordinary activity is stifled, and only 'what is not', those 'horrible ...
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... kind of, say, breaking through the sound barrier for the first time. Macbeth fully recognises the 'deep damnation' of such a deed, and sees what it will give birth to, the 'naked babe' of pity, stirring universal sorrow for the victim ...
... kind of, say, breaking through the sound barrier for the first time. Macbeth fully recognises the 'deep damnation' of such a deed, and sees what it will give birth to, the 'naked babe' of pity, stirring universal sorrow for the victim ...
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... kind of challenge , one which so shakes his ' single state of man ' , suggesting something like an earth- quake afflicting his individual little kingdom or ' state ' , that ordinary activity is stifled , and only ' what is not ' , those ...
... kind of challenge , one which so shakes his ' single state of man ' , suggesting something like an earth- quake afflicting his individual little kingdom or ' state ' , that ordinary activity is stifled , and only ' what is not ' , those ...
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... kind of , say , breaking through the sound barrier for the first time . Macbeth fully recognises the ' deep damnation ' of such a deed , and sees what it will give birth to , the ' naked babe ' of pity , stirring universal sorrow for ...
... kind of , say , breaking through the sound barrier for the first time . Macbeth fully recognises the ' deep damnation ' of such a deed , and sees what it will give birth to , the ' naked babe ' of pity , stirring universal sorrow for ...
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... kind of voice - over or ventriloquism by one of the witches . They must be seen by everyone on stage and the audience . The first , an armed head , both suggests Macduff ( ' Beware the thane of Fife ' ) , and anticipates the bringing on ...
... kind of voice - over or ventriloquism by one of the witches . They must be seen by everyone on stage and the audience . The first , an armed head , both suggests Macduff ( ' Beware the thane of Fife ' ) , and anticipates the bringing on ...
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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