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Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionarymorality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological studyof evil. In Ambivalent Macbeth, renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S.White argues that these differing readings result from a profoundlyambivalent play, and that this quality is a clue to its greatness.

White explores how radical ambivalence permeates the atmosphere,imagery, themes and characterisation of 'the Scottish play'. Heconsiders Shakespeare's historical context and source material, andexamines key cinematic, theatrical and other adaptations of the play.Throughout, he argues that an open-minded acceptance of ambivalencecan inspire a multitude of readings, and that this complexity helps toexplain the play's intriguing longevity.



Table of Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Prologue: sinners as heroes

1. Contexts of ambiguity: text, sources, history
2. ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’: the radical ambivalence of Macbeth
3. ‘Nothing is but what is not’: emotional worlds of characters in Macbeth
4. ‘The seeds of time’ and the Macbeths
5. ‘Palter with us in a double sense’: leading ideas – temptation, equivocation, evil
6. ‘This is the very painting of your fear’: imagery and the emotional world of Macbeth
7. Macbeth on stage and screen

Bibliography
Index



About the Author :

R.S. White is Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia and chief investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 11001800.



Review :
‘Having seen two Macbeths already this year ... I was glad to have this exploration of why it is so perennially reinterpretable. … It is informed, too, by his work for the Centre for the History of Emotions, resulting in a fine discussion of the characters’ emotional worlds. Other highlights are the account of the problematics of blending pro-Scot and pro-English sources and of the play’s insistence on the numbers two and three; the performance history; and a revisiting of the almost lost art of the study of Shakespeare’s imagery.’ ‘For White, Shakespeare poses open and problematic questions, and insists our answers must be indeterminate and inconclusive. [White] goes further to suggest that this is the essence of the quality of the play.’ '[A demonstration of] White’s hope for this work to provide ‘suggestions which other scholars might take up’ ... Ambivalent Macbeth helpfully foregrounds the many questions that Macbeth raises and certainly prompts further research.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781743325483
  • Publisher: Sydney University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Sydney University Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 198
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 322 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1743325487
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 148 mm


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