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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... positive benefits . Most editors ( see Muir 1964 , 140 ) accept Nicolas Rowe's 1709 emendation of " time " as " tune . " Why ? Macduff has not alluded to music but has called on the time to be erased between the present and his meeting ...
... positive virtues of a world which is , basically , positive and purposive . But against that elemental force , contends G. Wilson Knight , is an almost equal negative power . He sees the play as a " wrestling of destruction with ...
... positive and negative aspects of Macbeth and claims that both of the views we are given of the hero are true ... the form of the play is really the interaction of the two views in our opinions and emotions— what we ourselves see him to ...
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 |