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Ambivalent Macbeth /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, R. S., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: NSW, Australia : Sydney University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.