Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 57Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... Macbeth , she imagines an attack on her own literal milk , its transformation into gall . This imagery locates the horror of the scene in Lady Macbeth's unnatural abrogation of her maternal function . But latent within this image of ...
... Macbeth , she imagines an attack on her own literal milk , its transformation into gall . This imagery locates the horror of the scene in Lady Macbeth's unnatural abrogation of her maternal function . But latent within this image of ...
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... Lady Macbeth brings the witches ' power home : they get the cosmic apparatus , she gets the psychic force . That Lady Macbeth is the more frightening figure - and was so , I suspect , even before belief in witchcraft had declined ...
... Lady Macbeth brings the witches ' power home : they get the cosmic apparatus , she gets the psychic force . That Lady Macbeth is the more frightening figure - and was so , I suspect , even before belief in witchcraft had declined ...
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... Lady Macbeth psychologically does not need the witches , as she is fully capable of engendering her own evil and believing in it as something she can get away with . Macbeth is no less evil , but worries more about the consequences of ...
... Lady Macbeth psychologically does not need the witches , as she is fully capable of engendering her own evil and believing in it as something she can get away with . Macbeth is no less evil , but worries more about the consequences of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
History and Philosophy | 31 |
Representation and Identity | 40 |
Copyright | |
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