Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... thought and reality of the time when the play was written . In a similar way I asked Peter Stallybrass to examine the role of witch- craft , bringing contemporary belief and practices to illuminate the text of the play and proceeding to ...
... thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical', fascinates him as a new challenge. In Holinshed, 14 Macbeth only thinks of using force against Duncan after Malcolm has been nominated as 'successor in the kingdome', but in the play ...
... thought of such a possibility before meeting the witches , or at least that his starting at their greetings of him ( I.iii.51 ) registers his awareness at this moment that what they say gives conscious expression to a half - formed ...
... thought , whose murder yet is but fantastical , Shakes so my single state of man That function is smother'd in surmise , And nothing is but what is not ( I.iii . 134-42 ) The ' horrid image ' of murder is stranger than any of the ...
... thought of her as having a ' visionary and day - dreaming turn of mind ' , ' accustomed only to the Shadows of the Imagination , vivid enough to throw the every day realities into shadows , but not yet compared with their own ...
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 |