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.

This Guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth century to the present day. Chronologically structured, the Guide summarizes and assesses key interpretations, sets them in context and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify critical positions.

An accessible introductory survey of the key critical debates relating to one of the most widely-studied plays by Shakespeare
Traces the history of Macbeth criticism from the seventeenth century to the present day
Sets the debates in their critical, theoretical and historical contexts

Autorentext
Nicolas Tredell is an Independent Scholar, UK.

Klappentext

This Guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth century to the present day. Chronologically structured, the Guide summarizes and assesses key interpretations, sets them in context and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify critical positions.

Zusammenfassung
This guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the 17th century to the present day. Chronologically structured, the guide summarizes and assesses key interpretations, sets them in context and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify critical positions.

Inhalt

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.