Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown Routledge, 13 sep. 2013 - 272 sidor 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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... moral fences . Lamb was led to notice something especially significant in Macbeth - that the emphasis when we read the play is less on what he does than on the activity of mind connected with his deeds . Lamb strikingly linked , perhaps ...
... moral fences . Lamb was led to notice something especially significant in Macbeth - that the emphasis when we read the play is less on what he does than on the activity of mind connected with his deeds . Lamb strikingly linked , perhaps ...
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... moral sense and agony of conscience that any proper tragic hero must have ' ; this is a response to critics who see Macbeth as essentially good , when he has ' neither moral sense nor awareness of its existence ' . Such an account of ...
... moral sense and agony of conscience that any proper tragic hero must have ' ; this is a response to critics who see Macbeth as essentially good , when he has ' neither moral sense nor awareness of its existence ' . Such an account of ...
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... moral fear , his conscience and sense of guilt as well as his deep desire and compulsion to achieve the ultimate in ... morally and mentally since the opening of the play ; once unable to look on what he has done , or to think of what he ...
... moral fear , his conscience and sense of guilt as well as his deep desire and compulsion to achieve the ultimate in ... morally and mentally since the opening of the play ; once unable to look on what he has done , or to think of what he ...
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... moral anxiety to one of blank indifference , so her cool self - command has given way , and the disturbance of her mind is now expressed in nightmare images like that of the blood on her hand and the bell striking ' One , two ; why then ...
... moral anxiety to one of blank indifference , so her cool self - command has given way , and the disturbance of her mind is now expressed in nightmare images like that of the blood on her hand and the bell striking ' One , two ; why then ...
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... but which drive him to over- come his scruples and fulfil himself in terms of what he is good at , killing . So finally Macbeth is a play that escapes from ordinary moral boundaries and judgments ; it is less 26 Themes and structure.
... but which drive him to over- come his scruples and fulfil himself in terms of what he is good at , killing . So finally Macbeth is a play that escapes from ordinary moral boundaries and judgments ; it is less 26 Themes and structure.
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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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