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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... Stratford-upon-Avon 87 Gareth Lloyd Evans ENACTING THE TEXT 6 'Multiplying villainies of nature' 113 Robin Grove Part 4 10 Part 5 11 7 Language and action v Table of Contents.
... Stratford-upon-Avon 87 Gareth Lloyd Evans ENACTING THE TEXT 6 'Multiplying villainies of nature' 113 Robin Grove Part 4 10 Part 5 11 7 Language and action v Table of Contents.
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... Stratford-upon-Avon Studies and a frequent contributor to Critical Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey. Marvin Rosenberg is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Berkeley; he has published full-scale stage-histories of ...
... Stratford-upon-Avon Studies and a frequent contributor to Critical Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey. Marvin Rosenberg is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Berkeley; he has published full-scale stage-histories of ...
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... Stratfordupon-Avon in the years since the Second World War. A special feature of this latter contributionis an assessment of Laurence Olivier's memorable and innovatory interpretation ofMacbeth. The following part is concerned with some ...
... Stratfordupon-Avon in the years since the Second World War. A special feature of this latter contributionis an assessment of Laurence Olivier's memorable and innovatory interpretation ofMacbeth. The following part is concerned with some ...
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Contents
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The Play in The Theatre
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Enacting The Text
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Special Studies
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A Directors View of The Play
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Afterword | 249 |
Index | 255 |
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