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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... character " ( 1960 , 105 ) , Pollard likens the play to A Mirrour for Magistrates and says that the lack of delineation of characters other than Macbeth and Lady Macbeth creates a counterprotagonist to Macbeth , " a nation ... the ...
... characters , and it tends to treat fictional creatures as real people . In defense of these approaches , however , it is claimed that Shakespeare anticipates modern approaches , as Freud constantly recognized , and that the characters ...
... characters can err in depending on consciousness . Henry V , for example , is hit with a powerful tide of introverted feeling coming from his repressed orientation and function on the eve of Agincourt . Given the ex- troverted thinking ...
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 |