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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... nature of temptation. “To win us to our harm,” he observes, “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's / In deepest consequence” (1.3.1Z3—6). The devil can speak true, and his strategy is to ...
... nature of temptation. “To win us to our harm,” he observes, “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's / In deepest consequence” (1.3.1Z3—6). The devil can speak true, and his strategy is to ...
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... 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: “\X/hen the battles lost and won," “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (l.l.4,l ...
... 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: “\X/hen the battles lost and won," “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (l.l.4,l ...
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... nature remains clearly visible. The disharmonies of gender relations in Macbeth suggest another disturbing dimension of this tragedy. The play is filled with what janet Adelman (in Cannibals, W/itches, and Divorce, edited by Marjorie ...
... nature remains clearly visible. The disharmonies of gender relations in Macbeth suggest another disturbing dimension of this tragedy. The play is filled with what janet Adelman (in Cannibals, W/itches, and Divorce, edited by Marjorie ...
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... nature and in human relationships. The murder of Duncan, like that of Caesar in Julius Caesar, is accompanied by signs of the heavens' anger. Various observers report that chimneys blow down during the unruly night, that owls clamor and ...
... nature and in human relationships. The murder of Duncan, like that of Caesar in Julius Caesar, is accompanied by signs of the heavens' anger. Various observers report that chimneys blow down during the unruly night, that owls clamor and ...
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... nature's second course" and a “nourisher" of life that “knits up the raveled sleave of care” (2.2.4l-4) into “death's counterfeit” (23.77) and a living hell for Lady Macbeth. Life becomes sterile for Macbeth, a denial of harvest, the ...
... nature's second course" and a “nourisher" of life that “knits up the raveled sleave of care” (2.2.4l-4) into “death's counterfeit” (23.77) and a living hell for Lady Macbeth. Life becomes sterile for Macbeth, a denial of harvest, 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