Focus on MacbethJohn Russell Brown Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982 - 258 pages |
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Page 83
... character - exploration in the last decades of the nineteenth century was toward the image of the Loving Wife virtually sacrificing herself to her husband's witch- awakened ambition ; and the century ended with some spectacular examples ...
... character - exploration in the last decades of the nineteenth century was toward the image of the Loving Wife virtually sacrificing herself to her husband's witch- awakened ambition ; and the century ended with some spectacular examples ...
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... character . For one critic he was not ' heroic ' , for another he was not ' bestial ' enough , yet another felt that ... character and , in a sense , the play , which has often been described and reflected upon , but never named , by ...
... character . For one critic he was not ' heroic ' , for another he was not ' bestial ' enough , yet another felt that ... character and , in a sense , the play , which has often been described and reflected upon , but never named , by ...
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... character is an ambiguous creation . He seems , for a good deal of the action , not to know what he is himself or which side he wishes to walk on dark or light ? Which side should he walk on ? - he is unsure even about that . - Olivier ...
... character is an ambiguous creation . He seems , for a good deal of the action , not to know what he is himself or which side he wishes to walk on dark or light ? Which side should he walk on ? - he is unsure even about that . - Olivier ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The kingdom the power and the glory | 30 |
visual effects in Macbeth | 54 |
Copyright | |
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A.C. Bradley action actor ambiguity ambition audience Banquo becomes blood Cawdor character critics crown dagger dark deed dramatic effect Elizabethan England evil fear feel feudal Fleance gives Glamis guilt Hamlet hand Hecate Holinshed Holinshed's honour horror husband I.iii I.vii ideas imagery images of death imagination Jacobean James Keith Michell killing Duncan kind king kingship Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff look Malcolm mind monarchy moral murder Duncan murder of Duncan nature Nicol Williamson Olivier Olivier's performance perhaps Peter Hall play play's political present production prophecies reality recognises rhythm Richard III role royal Scotland seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy Siddons significant sleep sleep-walking scene soliloquy speak speech stage Stratford-upon-Avon suggestion supernatural tanistry Thane Thane of Cawdor theatre thee theme thing thou thought tragedy virtues vision visual Weird Sisters Weyard wife Wilson Knight witchcraft witches woman women words