Shakespeare Studies
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217790765
Paperback|9780217790765
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR RELATIONS In ' Macbeth' it is peculiarly true that the different characters who play their parts in the plot cannot be taken away from their relationship to the central character of Macbeth himself. They can neither be separately treated nor considered primarily in groups by themselves, and secondarily in relation with Macbeth. Gloster and his sons, in ' Lear, ' for example, can be separately treated both as separate characters and as a group of characters having primary relations with one another, and a secondary relation with King Lear and his misfortunes. Can a similar group be found in ' Macbeth ' ? Macduff and Malcolm, in the latter part of the play, may be considered separately in their relations to each other; but is not their separate grouping that of characters not primarily but secondarily related to each other, and first of all to Macbeth? Lady Macbeth is so vital and influential a personage that she tempts the reader or hearer of the play to conceive of her outside the plot, and in other conjecturable relationships; but aside from the fact that it is Shakespeare's touch which creates the temptation, is that touch anywhere responsible for a portrayal of her that is independent of her relation to Macbeth and his tragic acts? In the portrayal of Banquo, too, it may be asked if Shakespeare has anywhere lavished superfluous power on him so as to make him stand out in higher relief as an individual character than was requisite for his relation to Macbeth, and to the successive stages of that hero's tragic progress toward disaster. How is it with Duncan? The minor parts in any play are more detachable from the central plot than the main parts, precisely because of their unimportance. But, in another way, through those mor...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217790765 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217790763 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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