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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... king and on his place ( " degree " ) in the king's order . Hence the so - called " flatness " of secondary characters in Macbeth.36 Angus , for example , although arriving at Duncan's camp with Rosse from the battle at Fife , is ...
... king and on his place ( " degree " ) in the king's order . Hence the so - called " flatness " of secondary characters in Macbeth.36 Angus , for example , although arriving at Duncan's camp with Rosse from the battle at Fife , is ...
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... king's eldest son could ever legitimately hope to rise above the level of thane . Even the king's worthiest and most ambitious cousin would have to remain a thane - a rank whose distance from the throne is captured by Macbeth's ...
... king's eldest son could ever legitimately hope to rise above the level of thane . Even the king's worthiest and most ambitious cousin would have to remain a thane - a rank whose distance from the throne is captured by Macbeth's ...
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... king : Hail , King ! for so thou art . Behold , where stands Th'usurper's cursed head : the time is free . I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl , That speak my salutation in their minds ; Whose voice I desire aloud with mine ...
... king : Hail , King ! for so thou art . Behold , where stands Th'usurper's cursed head : the time is free . I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl , That speak my salutation in their minds ; Whose voice I desire aloud with mine ...
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