Macbeth (Vol. 29) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Berger, Harry, Jr. "Text Against Performance in Shakespeare: The Example of Macbeth." Genre XV , Nos. 1-2 (Spring/ Summer 1982): 49-79.
Contends that Macbeth "as a text to be interpreted by readers provides a critique of the play as a script—that is, as the basis of performance."
Calderwood, James L. If It Were Done: Macbeth and Tragic Action. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986, 156 p.
Compares and contrasts Macbeth and Hamlet; contends that Macbeth can be understood as "a tragedy about the nature of tragedy" and examines the psychological, social, and political ramifications of Macbeth's violence.
Coursen, H. R. "A Jungian Approach to Characterization: Macbeth" In Shakespeare's "Rough Magic": Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber, edited by Peter Erickson and Coppélia Kahn, pp. 230-44. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985.
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