Macbeth: A Guide to the PlayBloomsbury Academic, 1997 M07 30 - 224 pages Though 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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... things do besides God ) of many things . The law whereby he worketh is eternal , and therefore can have no show or color of mutability . ( 1593 , 1024 , 1026 ) God alone is creator : " So that we see it is the onely power of Gods word ...
... things that are of his Spirit " ( 1536 , 118 ) . Francis Quarles writes , " Before the knowledge of letters , God ... things are truely good indeed ... for wee having nothing but mistrust in our selves , doe yeeld and commit our selves ...
... things " I must not look to have , " while Satan looks at Eden or the unfallen Eve and , in his great soliloquies of his misery , thinks of everything he has lost and everything he has become . ( 1989 , 42 ) " The peculiar nature of ...
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 |