MacbethIn its concentration of interest upon the protagonists, Macbeth can be seen as Shakespeare's experiment in unity of focus, whose chief appeal arises from the struggles of the central characters with each other and with the infernal powers that inspire or govern them. Over the centuries, the vision of directors like Welles, Nunn and Polanski, as well as the eloquent talents of actors like Garrick, Siddons, Olivier and McKellen have contributed to the central debate of the play: Who or what is culpable? Bernice W. Kliman, in her analysis of Macbeth in performance, examines major productions of the play on both stage and screen, thereby inviting the reader to contemplate directors' and actors' choices for what is arguably Shakespeare's most compelling play. |
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... morality only by bonds of loyalty that are easy to snap - witness the exemplary first Thane of Cawdor , whose inheritor Macbeth becomes ( I.2.70 ) : What he hath lost , noble Macbeth hath won . Macbeth begins in frightening loyalty ...
... morality only by bonds of loyalty that are easy to snap - witness the exemplary first Thane of Cawdor , whose inheritor Macbeth becomes ( I.2.70 ) : What he hath lost , noble Macbeth hath won . Macbeth begins in frightening loyalty ...
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... itself . What is startling by its absence from this moral landscape is any sense of positive love for good , any sense of personal involvement in virtue , loyalty , restraint . Here , as on the social plane , the power 10 INTRODUCTION.
... itself . What is startling by its absence from this moral landscape is any sense of positive love for good , any sense of personal involvement in virtue , loyalty , restraint . Here , as on the social plane , the power 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... moral theologians , and so it is in Macbeth . The play begins with the Witches , and the Witches must be supposed to ... ( morally rather than physically ) but his bark will be lost , because he scuttles it himself . The other , and far ...
... moral theologians , and so it is in Macbeth . The play begins with the Witches , and the Witches must be supposed to ... ( morally rather than physically ) but his bark will be lost , because he scuttles it himself . The other , and far ...
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... moral nature already yielding , already ' moved ' . In terms of his physical nature , his ' fixed ' hair and his ' seated ' heart leave their appointed places ; his ' single state of man ' , his little kingdom of human faculties , finds ...
... moral nature already yielding , already ' moved ' . In terms of his physical nature , his ' fixed ' hair and his ' seated ' heart leave their appointed places ; his ' single state of man ' , his little kingdom of human faculties , finds ...
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... moral powers . I spoke earlier of Macbeth's gift for bloodshed , and his ambition , as ' free - floating ' qualities ... morality ( I.3.143-4 ) : If chance will have me king , why chance may crown me Without my stir and Come what come ...
... moral powers . I spoke earlier of Macbeth's gift for bloodshed , and his ambition , as ' free - floating ' qualities ... morality ( I.3.143-4 ) : If chance will have me king , why chance may crown me Without my stir and Come what come ...
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Alarums Banquo Birnan Wood blood Cleanth Brooks daggers dare Davenant's dead death deed DOCTOR Donalbain Dunsinane E. M. W. Tillyard Edward the Confessor Enter Lady Macbeth Enter Macbeth equivocator evil Exeunt Exit Exit Ghost eyes face father fear feast Fleance Folio GENTLEWOMAN Ghost give Glamis grace green one red Hail hand hath heart heaven Hecat honour i'the instruments of darkness King of Scotland Knock Lady Macduff LENNOX look lord Macduff MALCOLM MENTETH MESSENGER mind mislineation moral MURDERER MACBETH nature night noble o'the Penguin Books play pray printed ROSS royal scene Scotland SECOND WITCH seems sense Servant Seyton Shake Shakespeare sleep song speak speech stage direction strange sword Thane of Cawdor thee There's thine things THIRD MURDERER THIRD WITCH thou thought three Witches throne traitor tyrant Weird Sisters wife word write to Penguin YOUNG SEYWARD
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