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- Title
Macbeth: history, ideology and intellectuals.
- Authors
Sinfield, Alan
- Abstract
The article discusses ways in which the play "Macbeth," by William Shakespeare, handled anxieties about the violence exercised under the aegis of Absolutist ideology. Topics addressed include a Jamesian reading of the play, reasons why other views of state ideology were impossible for Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the theology of good, evil and divine ordination which purports to discriminate Macbeth's violence from that legitimately deployed by the state.
- Subjects
MACBETH (Play : Shakespeare); EARLY modern English drama -- History &; criticism; CRITICISM &; interpretation of Shakespeare's works; ENGLISH political plays; POLITICAL violence in literature
- Publication
Critical Quarterly, 1986, Vol 28, Issue 1/2, p63
- ISSN
0011-1562
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8705.1986.tb00008.x