MacbethRandom House Publishing Group, 12.06.2013 - 272 Seiten No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Macbeth knows that his restless desire to interfere with destiny is arrogant and useless. “lf chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir” ( l.3.145—6). Banquo, his companion, serves as his dramatic opposite by ...
... Macbeth knows that his restless desire to interfere with destiny is arrogant and useless. “lf chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir” ( l.3.145—6). Banquo, his companion, serves as his dramatic opposite by ...
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... Banquo comprehends the nature of temptation. “To win us to our harm,” he ... Macbeth or prevaricating? \X/hen they address him as one “that shalt be king ... Macbeth, and greater. / Not so happy, yet much happier” (lines 65-6), since ...
... Banquo comprehends the nature of temptation. “To win us to our harm,” he ... Macbeth or prevaricating? \X/hen they address him as one “that shalt be king ... Macbeth, and greater. / Not so happy, yet much happier” (lines 65-6), since ...
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... Macbeth's clarity of moral imagination is contrasted with his wife's imperceptiveness. He is always seeing visions or hearing voices—a dagger in the air, the ghost of Banquo, a voice crying “Sleep no more!”—and she is always denying ...
... Macbeth's clarity of moral imagination is contrasted with his wife's imperceptiveness. He is always seeing visions or hearing voices—a dagger in the air, the ghost of Banquo, a voice crying “Sleep no more!”—and she is always denying ...
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... Banquo has warned Macbeth. The popularity of witchlore tempted Shakespeare's acting company to expand the witches' scenes with spectacles of song and dance; even the Folio text we have evidently contains interpolations derived in part ...
... Banquo has warned Macbeth. The popularity of witchlore tempted Shakespeare's acting company to expand the witches' scenes with spectacles of song and dance; even the Folio text we have evidently contains interpolations derived in part ...
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... Banquo's ghost returns from the dead to haunt his murderer, prompting Macbeth to speak in metaphors of charnel houses and graves that send back their dead and of birds of prey that devour the corpses. The drunken porter who opens the ...
... Banquo's ghost returns from the dead to haunt his murderer, prompting Macbeth to speak in metaphors of charnel houses and graves that send back their dead and of birds of prey that devour the corpses. The drunken porter who opens the ...
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Alarum Angus APPARITION Banquo Birnam Wood blood born cauldron Charles Dickens crown D. H. Lawrence daggers dark dead death deed DOCTOR Donalbain Donwald Dunsinane Edith Wharton England Enter Macbeth evil Exeunt Exit father fear Fife film Fleance Fyodor Dostoevsky GENTLEWOMAN ghost give Glamis Hail hand Hannah Pritchard hath hear heart heaven Hecate Holinshed Holinshed's honor i'th Jane Austen King Duncan King's Knock LADY MACBETH LADY MACDUFF LENNOX live Location look lord Macbeth and Banquo Macbeth’s castle Macdowald Malcolm MESSENGER mortal nature night noble numbers o'th performance Porter realm ROSS royal scene Scotland Scottish SECOND WITCH servants SEYTON Shakespeare Siward slain sleep soldiers speak spirits stage Stratford-upon-Avon sword Thane Thane of Cawdor theater thee There's things THIRD MURDERER THIRD WITCH thou thought throne tragedy traitor Trevor Nunn tyrant unto Weird Sisters wife woman worthy young Siward