Macbeth [Paperback]

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.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.

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.

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.Macbeth is the most concentrated and intense of Shakespeare's tragedies. This dlãn