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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... turn help to explain the curious contradictions that tend to emerge in the common moralistic accounts of the play , which are torn between condemning him as a criminal and rescuing a grandeur , integrity , even virtue for him at the end ...
... turn help to explain the curious contradictions that tend to emerge in the common moralistic accounts of the play , which are torn between condemning him as a criminal and rescuing a grandeur , integrity , even virtue for him at the end ...
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... turning the battlefield into another place of a skull , or dead bones ? Are they being likened to the soldiers who crucified Christ ? The bleeding captain's narrative of the battle is supported by the report of Ross , who , on the ...
... turning the battlefield into another place of a skull , or dead bones ? Are they being likened to the soldiers who crucified Christ ? The bleeding captain's narrative of the battle is supported by the report of Ross , who , on the ...
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... turn of mind ' , ' accustomed only to the Shadows of the Imagination , vivid enough to throw the every day realities ... turns herself by an act of will into another Weird Sister , shedding her sex ( ' unsex me here ' , I.v.38 ) and ...
... turn of mind ' , ' accustomed only to the Shadows of the Imagination , vivid enough to throw the every day realities ... turns herself by an act of will into another Weird Sister , shedding her sex ( ' unsex me here ' , I.v.38 ) and ...
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... sat down in his chair behind him . And he turning about to sit down again saw the ghost of Banquo , which fronted him so , that he fell into a great passion of fear and fury . Lady Macbeth , who docs not see the ghost , 19 Images of death.
... sat down in his chair behind him . And he turning about to sit down again saw the ghost of Banquo , which fronted him so , that he fell into a great passion of fear and fury . Lady Macbeth , who docs not see the ghost , 19 Images of death.
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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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