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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... absent . After he wanders out from the banquet held in Duncan's honor , Macbeth weighs the consequences of his crime . He rehearses the various reasons why he should not kill Duncan . Macbeth is Duncan's kinsman and host . Duncan has ...
... absence of the thing in the Buttonhole production made Macbeth's sudden starts even more effective than had he been sharing them with a bleeding Banquo . Macbeth has been enjoying the dark world of his invention and has been inventing ...
... absent " moral order " kept pestering the production that denied it . Interestingly , Graham Holderness's program note ( 1992 ) did not deal with Malcolm's elevation as " King of Scotland , " a position beyond election , although ...
Contents
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 |