The Tragedy of MacbethNew American Library, 1963 - 247 Seiten One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entangles the conscience-stricken nobleman in a web of treachery, deceit and more murders that ultimately spells his doom. |
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... symbol , like the crowned babe and the bloody babe which are raised by the witches on the occasion of Macbeth's visit to them ; sometimes , in a metaphor , as in the passage under discussion . The num- ber of such references can hardly ...
... symbol , like the crowned babe and the bloody babe which are raised by the witches on the occasion of Macbeth's visit to them ; sometimes , in a metaphor , as in the passage under discussion . The num- ber of such references can hardly ...
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... symbol . " This over - ingenious reading obscures and enfeebles the stark simplicity of Lady Macbeth's utterance ... symbolism of the play . " The truth is that Shake- speare has not used the image of the babe any more in the manner of a ...
... symbol . " This over - ingenious reading obscures and enfeebles the stark simplicity of Lady Macbeth's utterance ... symbolism of the play . " The truth is that Shake- speare has not used the image of the babe any more in the manner of a ...
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... symbols . The isolation of Macbeth , which is at once a pun- ishment and a tragic dignity or honor , takes place by stages and by deliberate choice ; it begins when he does not tell Lady Macbeth that he has decided to kill Ban- quo and ...
... symbols . The isolation of Macbeth , which is at once a pun- ishment and a tragic dignity or honor , takes place by stages and by deliberate choice ; it begins when he does not tell Lady Macbeth that he has decided to kill Ban- quo and ...
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Prefatory Remarks | vii |
Introduction | xxii |
The Tragedy of Macbeth | 37 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Angus babe Banquo beth Birnam blood born Brooks Caithness castle Cawdor Cleanth Brooks crown daggers dare dead death deed devil died hereafter Doctor Donalbain Donne Duncan Duncan's murder Dunsinane Elizabethan Enter Macbeth evil Exeunt Exit F gives F prints fate father fear Fleance Folio friends garment hand hath heart heaven Hecate Holinshed honor Iago imagery imagination kill King King of Scotland Knock Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox lines in F London look lord Malcolm metaphor mind naked nature never night noble Othello passage pity play poet poetry prophecy Richard III Ross Scene Scotland Second Witch separate line Seyton Shake Shakespeare Siward slain sleep soldier soul speak speech stage strange symbol Thane of Cawdor theater thee things Third Witch thou thought tion tragedy tyrant unto Venus and Adonis Weird Sisters wife William Shakespeare words
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