Macbeth (Vol. 44) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Adelman, Janet. "'Born of Woman': Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth" In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Rennaissance. Selected Papers from the English Institute, edited by Marjorie Garber, n.s. no. 11, pp. 90-121. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
An influential reading of Macbeth as a representation of male attempts to escape female domination. Adelman argues that the disappearance of female characters by the end of the play enacts a consolidation of masculine power as well as the male fantasy of achieving a family without women.
Battenhouse, Roy W. "Toward Clarifying the Term'Christian Tragedy.'" In Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises, pp. 131-203. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.
Examines Macbeth as an example of Shakespeare's modification of Aristotelian premises concerning tragic...
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