Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown First published in 1982. |
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... wife involved together in a crime against a person with whom they have further and different relationships . The last section of this book contains Peter Hall's assess- ment of the play's power in the theatre and its hold over his own ...
... wives , some sleeping kill'd , All murder'd . ( Richard II , III.ii.156-60 ) In writing his early plays he had the impact of Marlowe to absorb , who had broken the moralising pattern of such stories as mirrors for magistrates by showing ...
... wife . And yet , hard on receiving notice of his new ' honour ' , the title of Thane of Cawdor , Macbeth reveals that he is already thinking of murder . The context for all this is the opening of the play , with its emphasis on the ...
... wife : To - morrow , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty pace from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death . Out , out , brief candle ...
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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 |