Focus on Macbeth

A.C. Bradley action actor ambiguity ambition audience Banquo becomes blood Cawdor character critics crown dagger dark deed dramatic effect Elizabethan England evil fear feel feudal Fleance gives Glamis guilt Hamlet hand Hecate Holinshed Holinshed's honour horror husband I.iii I.vii ideas imagery images of death imagination Jacobean James Keith Michell killing Duncan kind king kingship Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff look Malcolm mind monarchy moral murder Duncan murder of Duncan nature Nicol Williamson Olivier Olivier's performance perhaps Peter Hall play play's political present production prophecies reality recognises rhythm Richard III role royal Scotland seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy Siddons significant sleep sleep-walking scene soliloquy speak speech stage Stratford-upon-Avon suggestion supernatural tanistry Thane Thane of Cawdor theatre thee theme thing thou thought tragedy virtues vision visual Weird Sisters Weyard wife Wilson Knight witchcraft witches woman women words