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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... situation is mag- nified by Macbeth's tremendous imagination " ( 1960 , 491 ) . M. M. Mahood argues that time in Macbeth is tempo , rhythm , measure , the fitness of the natural order - order , that is , seen as a recurrent succession ...
... situation were imagi- natively one whole . [ Shakespeare ] wrote a drama that created its own atmo- sphere and identified its own locality , if it needed to . ( 1967 , 28-29 ) Similarly , when Macduff and Malcolm enter for 4.3 , we know ...
A Guide to the Play H. R. Coursen. in ensemble situations — and his soliloquies were brilliant . " If it were done " was performed in the shadows leading down from backstage right , " Is this a dagger " in the similar corridor coming ...
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 |