Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... speak he must be an ' intellectual giant ' , 10 when a very important question the text raises is how far Macbeth understands his own words . Moralistic accounts of Macbeth as falling into temptation , committing a terrible crime and ...
... speak of Noble Banquo , and to wish that he were there . And as he thus did , standing up to drink a Carouse to him , the ghost of Banquo came and sat down in his chair behind him . And he turning about to sit down again saw the ghost ...
... speak ' he had said at the end of the banquet scene ( III.iv.lS4 ) , and his imperative echoes in ' I conjure you ... answer me ' ( IV.i.50-1 ) . Perhaps the best justification for the Hecate scene is that it exposes Macbeth's ...
... speak him full of grace . ( IV.iii . 158-9 ) The play ends , as it began , with a battle , in which Mac- beth again confronts death as a warrior , killing young Siward before he is himself slain by Macduff . The last image of death is ...
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Contents
7 | |
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 |