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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... horror , horror , horror . " He compares the sight to " the great Doomes Image " -Judgement Day - a suggestion that the scene continues in Lady Macbeth's reference to " a hideous Trumpet [ that ] calls to parley / The sleepers of the ...
... horror film . To warp the scripts into that category , however , is to surrender much that the scripts can still com- municate to modern audiences - without necessarily giving up on the horror that they undoubtedly contain . One of the ...
... horror ... the choice of simple and common words with the power of evoking strong sense - reactions ... giv [ ing ] to unfamiliar horror a tangible quality .... Everywhere fear has a ' taste ' and blood a ' smell , ' light ' thickens ...
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 |