The Insufficiency of Virtue: Macbeth and the Natural OrderThe first scene-by-scene philosophical study of any Shakespeare play, this book demonstrates why Shakespeare's poetic writings still arouse and sustain serious inquiry and reflection. Using a combination of philosophical rigor, political insight, and textual thoroughness, Jan H. Blits delineates the competing forms of virtue within Macbeth--the courageous public virtue of warriors like Macbeth and the internal Christian virtue evoked by Duncan. This new interpretation of Macbeth explains crucial paradoxes overlooked by previous scholars and will serve as a model for future scholarship in the field. |
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Page 105
... cause against Banquo to theirs ; and , finally , attempts to give a justification for hiring them to do what he insists he could ( and would ) have done himself . Why ? And why , in the same breath in which he explains that he needs ...
... cause against Banquo to theirs ; and , finally , attempts to give a justification for hiring them to do what he insists he could ( and would ) have done himself . Why ? And why , in the same breath in which he explains that he needs ...
Page 170
... causes would arouse a dead man to battle ( 5.2.5 ) . Although not driven by personal revenge himself , he shows that his spirit can be aroused by its cause if that cause is just . Accordingly , when Angus reports that those Macbeth ...
... causes would arouse a dead man to battle ( 5.2.5 ) . Although not driven by personal revenge himself , he shows that his spirit can be aroused by its cause if that cause is just . Accordingly , when Angus reports that those Macbeth ...
Page 208
... cause and the effect : Macbeth's " single state " re- sults from his being all manly ( grammatically , a genitive of cause ) , and having such a single state constitutes what it means to be a man ( grammatically , a genitive of posses ...
... cause and the effect : Macbeth's " single state " re- sults from his being all manly ( grammatically , a genitive of cause ) , and having such a single state constitutes what it means to be a man ( grammatically , a genitive of posses ...
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