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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... turn up in the hands of students . The Blackfriars edition , edited by R. W. Dent ( Wm . C. Brown , Dubuque , Iowa ) contains brief essays on Shakespeare's life , times , and language . The notable feature of this folio - size edition ...
... turn , uses those stored images to mediate and interpret man's experience of the external , visual world " ( 1983 , 192 ) . Sight " involves ethical judgment . Visible images are for him always potentially signs of invisible truths ...
... turn , watched this man look with horror on what was happening inside and outside himself " ( 108 ) . However , the " production lacked ... a sense of chaos , both internal and exter- nal , and a sense of damnation - ritual and ...
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 |