Macbeth

Macbeth Criticism

• Macbeth (Vol. 57)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Macbeth and the Meaning of Tragedy
    • Macbeth: Shakespeare Mystery Play
  • Criticism: Ethics And Political Ideology
    • Macbeth's War on Time
    • Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals
    • Virtue's Sacrifice: A Machiavellian Reading of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Gender Issues
    • ‘Born of Woman’: Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth
    • Shakespeare's Attitude to Gender in Macbeth
    • 'Male and Female Created He Them': Sex and Gender in Macbeth
  • Macbeth's Three Murders: Shakespearean Psychology and Tragic Form
  • Further Reading
• Macbeth (Vol. 69)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Theatre of the Mind: An Essay on Macbeth
    • Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Lady Macbeth
    • Macbeth: The Tragedy of the Hardened Heart
    • Macbeth
    • Ridding Ourselves of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Shakespeare Goes Digital
    • Scotland Saved from History: Welles's Macbeth and the Ahistoricism of Medieval Film
    • Order and Disorder in Macbeth, Act V: Film and Television
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Macbeth and the Moral Scale of Tragedy
    • Sexuality, Witchcraft, and Violence in Macbeth
    • Macbeth and the Imitation of Evil
    • Images of Death: Ambition in Macbeth
    • The Horses of Macbeth.
    • Macbeth's Barren Sceptre
    • The Insufficiency of Virtue: “Macbeth” and the Natural Order
  • Further Reading
• Macbeth (Vol. 80)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Five Tragedies in Macbeth
    • The Many Faces of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Spectacle of Deterioration: Macbeth and the ‘Manner’ of Tragic Imitation
    • Doers of Deeds
    • Duncan
    • Lady Macbeth
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Shakespeare Right and Wrong
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Review of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare and Kierkegaard: ‘Dread’ in Macbeth.
    • Macbeth's—and Our—Self-Equivocations
    • The Language of Deception in Macbeth: A Study in Equivocation and Hidden Meaning
    • Living in a Hard Time: Politics and Philosophy in Macbeth
  • Further Reading
• Macbeth (Vol. 90)
  • Introduction
  • Macbeth and the Antic Round
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Assassination of Intentionality
    • Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland
    • The Masculine in Macbeth.
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • God's Murderer
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Fierce Kindred Spirits, Burning for a Throne
    • Review of Macbeth
    • Review of Macbeth
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Macbeth
    • Upon One Bank and Shoal of Time: Literature, Nihilism, and Moral Philosophy
    • Scaffolds of Treason in Macbeth.
    • The Sounds of Supernatural Soliciting in Macbeth
  • Further Reading
• Time for Such a Word - Verbal Echoing in Macbeth
• Macbeth (Vol. 29)
  • Introduction
  • Language And Symbolism
    • Image and Symbol in 'Macbeth'
    • Macbeth
    • Macbeth Appalled (I and II)
  • Supernatural Elements
    • A Scottish Tragedy: Macbeth
    • Magic in Macbeth
    • Macbeth and Witchcraft
  • Gender Issues
    • Macbeth: The Prisoner of Gender
    • 'Be bloody, bold and resolute': Tragic Action and Sexual Stereotyping in Macbeth
  • Further Reading
• Household Words: Macbeth and the Failure of Spectacle
• Who Has No Children in Macbeth?
  • Introduction
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  • 5
  • References
• Macbeth (Vol. 44)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Two Scenes from Macbeth
    • Macbeth
  • Psychoanalytic Interpretations
    • Thriftless Ambition, Foolish Wishes and the Tragedy of Macbeth
    • A Jungian Approach to Characterization: Macbeth
    • Macbeth: A Dream of Love
  • Macbeth As Tragic Hero
    • The Criminal as Tragic Hero: Dramatic Methods
    • Courage and Impotence in Macbeth
    • Macbeth's Suicide
    • 'The Scottish Play': Hero and Villain
  • Religious And Theological Issues
    • A Painted Devil: Macbeth
    • Macbeth
    • Macbeth's Free Fall
    • The Subversive Metaphysics of Macbeth
    • Theology as Tragedy in Macbeth
  • Further Reading