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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... give heat , in the water to give moisture , in the earth to give fruit , in the heart to give his strength , yea in our bread and drinke is hee , to give us nourishment , where without him the bread and drinke cannot give sustenance ...
... give ye your membres as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin : but give your selves unto god , as they that are alive from the dead , and give your membres as weapons of righteousnes unto God " ( 6:13 ) . " For sin shal not have dominion ...
... gives prominence to the variety of personal links " ( 163 ) . The personalization gives motive to characters and enhances their hold on us . King Lear has a " court " . -a strange vision of a full - scale Jacobean system of justice ...
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 |