Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... moral fences . Lamb was led to notice something especially significant in Macbeth - that the emphasis when we read the play is less on what he does than on the activity of mind connected with his deeds . Lamb strikingly linked , perhaps ...
... moral sense and agony of conscience that any proper tragic hero must have ' ; this is a response to critics who see Macbeth as essentially good , when he has ' neither moral sense nor awareness of its existence ' . Such an account of ...
... moral fear , his conscience and sense of guilt as well as his deep desire and compulsion to achieve the ultimate in ... morally and mentally since the opening of the play ; once unable to look on what he has done , or to think of what he ...
... moral anxiety to one of blank indifference , so her cool self - command has given way , and the disturbance of her mind is now expressed in nightmare images like that of the blood on her hand and the bell striking ' One , two ; why then ...
... but which drive him to over- come his scruples and fulfil himself in terms of what he is good at , killing . So finally Macbeth is a play that escapes from ordinary moral boundaries and judgments ; it is less 26 Themes and structure.
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 |