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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... evil is most powerful , Peter Hall argues that Macbeth is the most thorough - going study of evil that I know in dramatic literature . Evil in every sense : cosmic sickness , personal sickness , personal neurosis , the consequence of ...
... evil is not an independent entity , as Macbeth would wish it or would wish to create it , evil was , according to Walter Clyde Curry a reality : evil was both [ a ] subjective and , so far as the human mind is concerned , a non ...
... evil ” : evil " comes from without , " and thus it is , he maintains , that " the Weird Sisters are objectively conceived . " Evil comes from without - as if it were some species of radioactivity emanating from another planet and ...
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 |