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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... imagination [ in Macbeth ] is preoccupied with the dissolution of the usual boundaries between mind and matter , imagination and reality , " according to James Calderwood ( 1986 , 131 ) . It is not surprising that the Geneva Gloss on ...
... imagination and the con- science in this vision of a whole world weeping at the inhumanity of help- lessness betrayed and innocence and beauty destroyed . ( 1959 , 61 ) Different imaginations are moved in different ways , and even the ...
... imaginative range " ( 109 ) . This is to assume that Shakespeare's Weird Sisters are stereotypical , an issue to be discussed below . Peter Hall stresses the historical aspect of the play , saying that Macbeth is a redepiction of the ...
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 |