Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 20Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 264
... evil . The way evil breeds evil , blood breeds blood . Macbeth was not a critical success , and it has since been suggested that this was due , in some measure , to a strong difference in opinion between Paul Scofield and Peter Hall ...
... evil . The way evil breeds evil , blood breeds blood . Macbeth was not a critical success , and it has since been suggested that this was due , in some measure , to a strong difference in opinion between Paul Scofield and Peter Hall ...
Page 373
... evil ruler has been carried to the point of showing him as archetypal evil - Satan ; and to this figure has been opposed the sym- bol of the innocent lamb , a list of qualities admirable in a king , and the portrayal of the true Malcolm ...
... evil ruler has been carried to the point of showing him as archetypal evil - Satan ; and to this figure has been opposed the sym- bol of the innocent lamb , a list of qualities admirable in a king , and the portrayal of the true Malcolm ...
Page 414
... Evil is certainly at the centre of the play , more so than anywhere else in Shakespeare . It is a spiritu- al , occult , contagious kind of evil , different from the more pragmatic Machiavellian kind typical of Shakespeare's vil- lains ...
... Evil is certainly at the centre of the play , more so than anywhere else in Shakespeare . It is a spiritu- al , occult , contagious kind of evil , different from the more pragmatic Machiavellian kind typical of Shakespeare's vil- lains ...
Contents
List of Plays and Poems | xv |
Macbeth 1 | xx |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Copyright | |
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