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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... Grace of Grace , / [ To ] perform in measure , time and place . " With a Flourish , Exeunt Omnes . Works Cited Adams , J. Q. , ed . 1931. 48 Macbeth.
... Grace to understand that this kind of people , I mean witches and sorcerers , within these few last years , are marvelously increased within your Grace's realm , for the shoal of ... Grace of Grace " at the end Critical Approaches 93 335.
A Guide to the Play H. R. Coursen. promises " the Grace of Grace " at the end . Stallybrass and the materialists place the entire play within a political frame , a surrounding and informing context dictated by the throned Jacobean . The ...
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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 |