Shakespeare: Macbeth

ISBN-13: 9781403999252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str.

Nicolas Tredell

Opis

This Guide provides a critical survey of the rich range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarizes, explains and assesses key interpretations, sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts, and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify crucial critical positions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Note on the Text.- Introduction.- The Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century: The Development of Macbeth Criticism.- The Nineteenth Century: Romantic and Victorian Macbeth.- The Early Twentieth Century: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and Imagery.- The Mid-Twentieth Century: History, Manhood, the Naked Babe, Nature and Evil.- The Later Twentieth Century: History, Tragedy, Violence and Ideology.- The Later Twentieth Century: Language, Subjectivity, and Subversion.- The Later Twentieth Century: Men, Women and Witches.- Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century: Future Directions.- Select Bibliography.- Select Filmography.- Index.

O autorze

NICOLAS TREDELL is Consultant Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Readers' Guides and has produced five Guides for the series. He has published widely on literary criticism and theory - his previous publications include The Critical Decade (1993), Conversations with Critics (1994) and a history of film theory, Cinemas of the Mind (2002). For many years he has taught and convened Sussex University literature courses, most recently on Shakespeare.

Blurb

Macbeth is the most concentrated and intense of Shakespeare's tragedies. This dark, thrilling drama of intrigue, witchcraft and murder can be seen as a profound exploration of evil, a powerful study of psychological turmoil, a penetrating examination of urgent political issues and a searching enquiry into masculinity and femininity. Over four centuries, the play has attracted a huge body of commentary, generated a wide range of fascinating interpretations and provoked vigorous controversy.

In this Reader's Guide, Nicolas Tredell considers the key critical responses to Macbeth from the early seventeenth to the twenty-first century. He provides concise accounts and assessments of the most vital commentaries and interpretations, setting them in their critical, theoretical and historical contexts. Lively and authoritative, this survey is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and all those who wish to deepen their grasp of the crucial concerns of Macbeth criticism and to engage in the ongoing critical debates about the play.