Adapting Macbeth
A Cultural History
In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to 'improve' or 'correct' the play's perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth's popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband and wife. The study ranges across elite and popular…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-18140-3
- EAN: 9781350181403
- Produktnummer: 38187944
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 15 bw illus
Über den Autor
William C. Carroll is Professor of English Emeritus at Boston University, USA.
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