Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown Routledge, 13/09/2013 - 272 páginas 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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... concerned with the nature of Macbeth's inner life and motivation , while Brian Morris relates ideas expressed in the play to the central tenets of Christian belief and worship . D.J. Palmer's contri- bution starts from an examination of ...
... concerned with the nature of Macbeth's inner life and motivation , while Brian Morris relates ideas expressed in the play to the central tenets of Christian belief and worship . D.J. Palmer's contri- bution starts from an examination of ...
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... breaks new ground in Macbeth is in his deeper study of the nature of ambition , which is the special concern of this essay . Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an eagerness to gain 8 Themes and structure.
... breaks new ground in Macbeth is in his deeper study of the nature of ambition , which is the special concern of this essay . Ambition is usually understood in its straightforward sense as an eagerness to gain 8 Themes and structure.
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... and elementary level as merely concerned with power . What we have witnessed is something much more complex . If anyone embodies this cruder sense of ambition it is Lady Macbeth , whose one thought in the 24 Themes and structure.
... and elementary level as merely concerned with power . What we have witnessed is something much more complex . If anyone embodies this cruder sense of ambition it is Lady Macbeth , whose one thought in the 24 Themes and structure.
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... concern was to probe further in the last three acts into what happens then , into the way he becomes a prisoner of his own imagination , bound into doubts and fears , and is able to achieve release from these only at the appalling cost ...
... concern was to probe further in the last three acts into what happens then , into the way he becomes a prisoner of his own imagination , bound into doubts and fears , and is able to achieve release from these only at the appalling cost ...
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Índice
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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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