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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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'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series (a bargain at GBP16.99 for each play) to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in London Read more...
