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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... porter, who “hanged himself on th'expectation of plenty” (Z.3.4-5). It is by showing Macbeth that he is two-thirds of his way to the throne that the witches tempt him to seize the last third at whatever cost. INTRODUCTION ix Introduction.
... porter, who “hanged himself on th'expectation of plenty” (Z.3.4-5). It is by showing Macbeth that he is two-thirds of his way to the throne that the witches tempt him to seize the last third at whatever cost. INTRODUCTION ix Introduction.
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... porter who opens the gate to Macduff and Lennox after the murder (2.3) invokes images of judgment and everlasting bonfire, through which the scene takes on the semblance of hell gate and the Harrowing of Hell. Owls appear repeatedly in ...
... porter who opens the gate to Macduff and Lennox after the murder (2.3) invokes images of judgment and everlasting bonfire, through which the scene takes on the semblance of hell gate and the Harrowing of Hell. Owls appear repeatedly in ...
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... porter in 2.3 seemingly refers to the infamous attempt to blow up the houses of Parliament known as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and to the subsequent trial of the ]esuit I-lenry Garnet, the notorious “equivocator," for his part in the ...
... porter in 2.3 seemingly refers to the infamous attempt to blow up the houses of Parliament known as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and to the subsequent trial of the ]esuit I-lenry Garnet, the notorious “equivocator," for his part in the ...
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... Porter had emerged as the most remarkable Lady Macbeth of the era even better than Hannah Pritchard, according to the actor Charles Macklin. David Garrick made an attempt to restore Shakespe-are's play in 1744, though at the last minute ...
... Porter had emerged as the most remarkable Lady Macbeth of the era even better than Hannah Pritchard, according to the actor Charles Macklin. David Garrick made an attempt to restore Shakespe-are's play in 1744, though at the last minute ...
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... Porter (2.3) as a blatant violation of classical strictures against including comic material in a tragedy, and then, somewhat incongriiously perhaps, continued to provide the diverting song and dance of the witches to which audiences ...
... Porter (2.3) as a blatant violation of classical strictures against including comic material in a tragedy, and then, somewhat incongriiously perhaps, continued to provide the diverting song and dance of the witches to which audiences ...
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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