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... Macbeth was written probably four or five years after Hamlet , and illustrates this tauter and more concentrated imagery . Almost the only example of the paired - noun image is Macbeth's ' bank and shoal of time ' , and the double image ...
... Macbeth was written probably four or five years after Hamlet , and illustrates this tauter and more concentrated imagery . Almost the only example of the paired - noun image is Macbeth's ' bank and shoal of time ' , and the double image ...
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... Macbeth one of the key - words is ' unnatural ' : ' unnatural , even like the deed that's done ' , ' unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles ' , and when Macbeth revisits the witches he calls for the chaos that must be the outcome ...
... Macbeth one of the key - words is ' unnatural ' : ' unnatural , even like the deed that's done ' , ' unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles ' , and when Macbeth revisits the witches he calls for the chaos that must be the outcome ...
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... Macbeth is the supreme example of a play that ascends the brightest heaven of tragic invention by virtue of its ... Macbeth's degenera- tion into a bloody tyrant is in a sense beyond his control , one crime leading inevitably to another ...
... Macbeth is the supreme example of a play that ascends the brightest heaven of tragic invention by virtue of its ... Macbeth's degenera- tion into a bloody tyrant is in a sense beyond his control , one crime leading inevitably to another ...
Contents
Chapter Page | vii |
EARLY PLAYS AND POEMS | 53 |
SONNETS AND LYRICAL PLAYS | 74 |
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