Focus on Macbeth
Summary
First published in 1982.
Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to understand the tragedy of Macbeth and this book provides a wide range of studies that respect the individuality of the text and examine it from different viewpoints.
Contents Themes and Structure; Characterization and Narrative, Visual Effects, Performance in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Historical and Political Background; Role of Witchcraft; Game Theory.
Contributors John Russell Brown, Derek Russell Davis, Gareth Lloyd Evans, R A Foakes, Michael Goldman, Robin Grove, Peter Hall, Michael Hawkins, Brian Morris, D J Palmer, Marvin Rosenberg and Peter Stallybrass.
Similar Books
-
The Brontësby Patricia Ingham
-
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othelloby Peter Erickson
-
Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wakeby Vincent John Cheng
-
Christopher Marloweby Philip Henderson
-
Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwellby Bárbara Ozieblo
-
Shakespeare: The Roman Plays (Longman Critical Readers)by Graham Holderness
-
Sounding the Classics: From Sophocles to Thomas Mannby Rudolph Binion
-
Media, Technology, and Performance (Renaissance Drama New Series No. 34)by Jeffrey Masten