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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... means " battle " and " battalion , " suggesting that when battles were lost , so were armies , as later in " battell " ( 5.6.4 ) . " Weyward ” ( 1.3.30 ) means more than the usual “ weird . ” Weyward means " both ( a ) wayward ( lawless ...
... means are divers , which allure them to these unlawful arts of serving of the devil , so by divers ways use they their practices , answering to these means which first the devil used as instruments in them — though all tending to one ...
... means and of what " tragedy " means . A good production invariably challenges our preconceptions about the script , its genre , or the zeitgeist in which the production occurs . Arditti saw Thalbach as a Wizard of Oz , working with " an ...
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 |