The Connell guide to Shakespeare's Macbeth /
Bradshaw, Graham.
Chippenham : Connell Guides,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123) and index.
Introduction -- A summary of the plot -- What is Macbeth about? -- How does Shakespeare create an atmosphere of evil? -- Is Macbeth the plaything of a giant malevolence? -- How sympathetic do we feel to Macbeth? -- Why is the relatively uneducated Macbeth's language so difficult? -- Is Duncan a saintly king?? -- How good a man is Banquo? -- How close is the Mabeth's marriage? -- What happens to the marriage? -- Is Macduff this play's real hero? -- So what of the play's final scene? Is it or isn't it triumphal? -- Is life a tale "told by an idiot/Signifying nothing"? -- Notes: The characters (7) -- Supernatural powers (14) -- Persecuting witches (27) -- Babes (32) -- The Porter (44) -- Historical inaccuracies (52) -- Ten facts about Macbeth (64) -- The weird sisters (68) -- Inventing Banquo (70) -- The poetry in Macbeth (82) -- The "sweet milk of concord" (91) -- Macbeth's "borrow'd robes" (98) -- Christian imagery in Macbeth (108) -- Bibliography (120) -- A short chronology (122)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.