Macbeth Flashcards
What technqiue does Kenneth Muir identify, and what does it create?
Constant ‘antithesis’ between lines creates sense of ‘equivocation’
Which technique does R A Foakes identify, and to what effect?
Questions are a ‘means of concentrating emotion’, thus Macbeth is the ‘most intense’ of the tragedies as a result
What does R A Foakes suggest of reality in Macbeth?
It is not just complex, but ACTUALLY doubled
What does Lauren Shohet suggests Macbeth asks?
‘Macbeth asks how we know what we know: how we recognise, misrecognize, or fantacize interpretative strategies’
What does Kent Cartwright say Macbeth:
A) concerns
B) does?
A) ‘Renaissance epistemology’ regarding ‘the authenticity of lived experience’
B) ‘turns theatre into a way of knowing’
What does Sean McDowell say causes Macbeth’s development?
‘Flawed conjectures’ every time spur on his movement
What does Stuart Clark call Macbeth?
‘vision-centred drama’
What does Arthur Kinney suggest Macbeth concerns?
a ‘need to know and a fear of not knowing’ - appropriate to context, eg gunpowder plot; spy networks of Robert Cecil
What does Robert Weimann argue fo teh porter?
He acts as a contemporary of Shakespeare’s London [ask yourself: does he still serve this function today? Gatekeeper?]
What does JG study and suggest?
fireworks may have been let off on stage at “thunder and lightening” - suggests the smells of these would have had political implications [Gunpowder plot]
How did Holinshed’s Chronicles depict MDuncan and Macbeth?
Duncan had “too much of leniency”; Macbeth “of cruelty”
