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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... heaven , & a new earth : for the first heaven , and the first earth were passed away , & there was no more sea . " The nemesis that pursues Macbeth is a version of " Caesar . " Shakespeare's mind must have been listening to the music of ...
... Heavens Cherubin , hors'd / Upon the sightlesse Curriors of the Ayre , " that " Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye ... heaven , & become Angels of darkness " and , of course , " the Pope . " Verse 2 continues : " And he opened the ...
... heaven , & the powers of heaven shall be shaken " ( 24 : 29 ) . The Gloss tells us , " He meaneth the horrible trembling of the world , & and as it were an alteration of the ordre of nature . " A Lord in Macbeth prays that " we may ...
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 |