Macbeth: A Guide to the PlayThough written nearly 400 years ago, Shakespeare's Macbeth continues to capture the interest of modern audiences. Laden with political intrigue, supernatural elements, and complex psychological issues, Macbeth is a play of contemporary relevance, despite its tale of witches and ancient Scottish kings. While the play reflects seventeenth-century theological and political concerns, it also explores enduring themes, such as fate and free will, appearance and reality, order and disorder, ambition and obedience, and madness and sanity. Macbeth has been staged countless times, and it has also been produced for film and television. Numerous editions of the play exist, it is one of the most widely taught dramatic works, and scholars have written an enormous amount of criticism about it. This reference book is a comprehensive guide to the play. |
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... Elizabethan world picture . Macbeth is one of the least " problematized " scripts in the canon . One must also bear in mind , however , Robert Ornstein's caveat that " the moral and providential platitudes that the Elizabethans and ...
... Elizabethan Tragedy . " Essays and Studies 1 : 46–66 . 1959. The Business of Criticism . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Harbage , Alfred , ed . 1969. Macbeth . Baltimore : Pelican . Homan , Sidney . 1986. Shakespeare's Theater of ...
... Elizabethan world pic- ture ' were propounded ... by those , from the king downwards , with an interest in the status quo " ( 162 ) . " Such views could be sustained only as long as they avoided specifics , talking about the king as sun ...
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Critical Approaches | 117 |
The Play in Performance | 139 |
Selected Bibliography | 199 |
Copyright | |
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Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters Frederick Kiefer Limited preview - 2003 |