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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... weird sisters, the bearded women. Their unnaturalness betokens disorder in nature, for they can sail in a sieve and “look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth / And yet are on't” (13.41-Z). Char-acteristically, they speak in paradoxes ...
... weird sisters, the bearded women. Their unnaturalness betokens disorder in nature, for they can sail in a sieve and “look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth / And yet are on't” (13.41-Z). Char-acteristically, they speak in paradoxes ...
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... Weird Sisters as “goddesses of destiny,” associating them with the three fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who hold the spinning distaff, draw off the thread of life, and cut it. In Macbeth, the Weird Sisters' power to control ...
... Weird Sisters as “goddesses of destiny,” associating them with the three fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who hold the spinning distaff, draw off the thread of life, and cut it. In Macbeth, the Weird Sisters' power to control ...
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... Weird Sisters (4.1.lll.l) ends with a glass or magic mirror showing many more kings bearing the appurtenances of royal office, including the “twofold balls and treble scepters” (4.1.1Z1) that seemingly refer to ]ames's double coronation ...
... Weird Sisters (4.1.lll.l) ends with a glass or magic mirror showing many more kings bearing the appurtenances of royal office, including the “twofold balls and treble scepters” (4.1.1Z1) that seemingly refer to ]ames's double coronation ...
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... weird sisters when Mesdames Beard, Champness, etc. represented them with Garrick's Macbeth," but appeared as “preternatural beings, distinguished only by the fellness of their purposes and the fatality of their delusions." In the ...
... weird sisters when Mesdames Beard, Champness, etc. represented them with Garrick's Macbeth," but appeared as “preternatural beings, distinguished only by the fellness of their purposes and the fatality of their delusions." In the ...
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... Weird Sisters, ludicrously visualized in a Black Mass. Akita Kurosaw-a's Throne of Blood (black and white, 1957, titled in Japanese Kumcmosu-Djo or “The Castle of the Spiders Web”) is one of the great films of its era, Shakespearean or ...
... Weird Sisters, ludicrously visualized in a Black Mass. Akita Kurosaw-a's Throne of Blood (black and white, 1957, titled in Japanese Kumcmosu-Djo or “The Castle of the Spiders Web”) is one of the great films of its era, Shakespearean or ...
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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