Macbeth
Macbeth
Published on 15. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 192 pages
978-1-4039-9925-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'This Guide both covers the full range of responses to Macbeth and discusses essential criticism in real depth; it gives a sense of the unfolding critical history and of the continuing excitement of thinking about the play.' - Nick Potter, Swansea Institute, UKMore details
Series
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
247 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-9925-2 (9781403999252)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-20308-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
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.
Content
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.