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Genre/Form: | Tragedy Drama Tragedies |
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Named Person: | Macbeth, King of Scotland; Macbeth, King of Scotland; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; Macbeth, King of Scotland; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; John Wilders |
ISBN: | 0521495628 9780521495622 0521534828 9780521534826 |
OCLC Number: | 51266250 |
Description: | xiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The Text of Macbeth -- The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod -- Medea -- Duff and Duncan / Raphael Holinshed -- An Attack on Free Will / Martin Luther -- A Defense of Free Will / Desiderius Erasmus -- The Discovery of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot -- News from Scotland / I James -- An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion -- A Defense of Disobedience and Tyrannicide / Juan de Mariana -- A Treatise on Equivocation / Henry Garnet -- Macbeth / William Davenant -- uMabatha / Welcome Msomi -- Eyewitness Account of Macbeth, 1611 / Simon Forman -- Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth / Samuel Johnson -- The Genius of Shakespeare / Elizabeth Montagu -- On David Garrick's and Hannah Pritchard's Eighteenth-Century Performances / Thomas Davies -- On Macbeth / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Characters in Macbeth / William Hazlitt -- On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey -- On Playing Lady Macbeth / Sarah Siddons -- The Tragedy of Macbeth / A.C. Bradley -- Image and Symbol in Macbeth / Kenneth Muir -- Two Scenes from Macbeth / Harry Levin -- Culture, Character, and Conscience in Shakespeare / Marvin Rosenberg -- Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth / Janet Adelman -- 'What do you mean?': The Languages of Macbeth / A.R. Braunmuller -- Macbeth / Derek Jacobi -- Macbeth and the Antic Round / Stephen Orgel -- "Stands Scotland Where It Did?": The Location of Macbeth on Film / Peter Holland. |
Responsibility: | edited by John Wilders. |
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Abstract:
This is a detailed account of the theatre history of Shakespeare's Macbeth from 1607 to the present day. The Introduction describes major productions and performers. A detailed commentary alongside the New Cambridge Shakespeare text of the play describes how specific episodes and passages have been interpreted in the theatre.
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