Ebook: Ambivalent Macbeth
Author: Shakespeare William, White R. S
- Tags: Criticism interpretation etc., Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616. -- Macbeth, Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616, Macbeth (Shakespeare William)
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Sydney University Press
- City: University of Sydney;NSW;Australia
- Language: English
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Intro; Ambivalent Macbeth; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Prologue: Sinners as Heroes; 1: Contexts of Ambiguity: Text, Sources, History; 2: "Fair is foul and foul is fair": The Radical Ambivalence of Macbeth; 3: "Nothing is but what is not": Emotional Worlds of Characters in Macbeth; 4: "The seeds of time" and the Macbeths; 5: "Palter with us in a double sense": Leading Ideas -- Temptation, Equivocation, Evil; 6: "This is the very painting of your fear": Imagery and the Emotional World of Macbeth; 7: Macbeth on Stage and Screen; Bibliography; Index; About the author;Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionary morality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological study of evil. In Ambivalent Macbeth, renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S. White argues that these differing readings result from a profoundly ambivalent play, and that this quality is a clue to its greatness.
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