Miguel A. Bernad (essay date winter 1962)


Miguel A. Bernad (essay date winter 1962)

SOURCE: Bernad, Miguel A. “The Five Tragedies in Macbeth.Shakespeare Quarterly 13, no. 1 (winter 1962): 49-61.

[In the following essay, Bernad offers a thematic survey of Macbeth, emphasizing five distinct aspects of tragedy—physical, psychological, moral, social, and theological—within the play.]

One of the most remarkable things about Shakespeare's Macbeth is the artistry with which the playwright has woven five distinct tragedies into one. Hamlet is intriguing,...

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