Macbeth

Shakespeare, William: dtv TB.12484 Shakespeare.Macbeth,En.-Dt Zweisprachige Ausgabe, DTV, Dezember 1995 ISBN: 3423124849
b Deutsch von Frank Günther Mit einem Essay von Ulrich Suerbaum /b i "Leben ist nur ein Wanderschattenspiel; ist eine Mär aus einem Tölpelmund, voll von Getön und Toben, und bedeutet nichts" /i So Macbeth im letzten Stadium des Überdrusses, kurz vor seiner Ermordung, die ihm willkommen ist wie eine Befreiung. Vorausgegangen ist ein beispielloses Spektakel von Machtgier, Verführung und Mord; Shakespeares kürzeste, konzentrierteste, eingängigste Tragödie. b Drei Hexen /b prophezeien Macbeth, er werde einst König sein. Sogleich steigen Mordgedanken in ihm auf, die er vergeblich zu unterdrücken sucht. Bestärkt durch den blutigen Ehrgeiz seiner Frau Lady Macbeth, bringt er schließlich den amtierenden König Duncan im Schlaf um. Macbeth wird König, fürchtet aber weiterhin um seinen Rang. Nun muß der Feldherr Banquo dran glauben, dessen Geist bald darauf während eines Festmahles erscheint und Macbeth vollends verunsichert. Ein weiteres Mal sucht er die Hexen auf, die ihn in trügerischer Sicherheit wiegen: "Keiner, den ein Weib gebar", wird ihm je schaden. Doch das Unglaubliche geschieht: als Rächer tritt Macduff auf, der einst "vor der Zeit aus dem Mutterleib geschnitten" ward. Macbeth, der nie die Anteilnahme des Zuschauers verloren hat, weil ihm seine Taten zu sehr auf der Seele lasten, geht unter, ebenso wie Lady Macbeth, die zuvor schon dem Wahnsinn verfallen war.

NEUBUCH! 7. Aufl. 2009. 273 S. 19 cm 192 mm x 121 mm x 17 mm; dtv Taschenbücher Bd.12484

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Fröhlich, Vinzent: The construction of femininity and masculinity in Shakespeare's Macbeth, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Juni 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638949176
Examination Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 50 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Schriftliche Hausarbeit im Rahmen der Ersten Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien , abstract: The title of this paper is The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Shakespeare's Macbeth. As this title suggests, I analyzed how Shakespeare construes female and male identity in Macbeth. As in many Shakespearean dramas the play starts with the destruction of order leading up to a crisis and ending in the restoration of order at the end of the play (Gelfert 32). The political order, which is destroyed in the play is King Duncan's natural and fair that appreciates a unique set of masculine and feminine values. Macbeth murders King Duncan in order to usurp his throne. Macbeth's reign turns Duncan's order into chaos and moral order cannot return to Scotland until the tyrant ruler Macbeth is defeated by troops who fight for the restoration of Duncan's order, through the coronation of his son Malcolm. This essay deals with the question of how Shakespeare shapes female and male characters. As a matter of fact, female and male characters are ultimately involved in the destruction and restoration of Scotland. This involves questions such as:Which historical concepts does Shakespeare use to construe his male and femalecharactersDoes he construe typical gender rolesAnd what happens when gender boundaries are crossed, if men develop feminine traitsand women male ones With special regard to the marriage of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, I also analyzed the interaction between the genders. In the course of my analysis, I used the term gender, originating from Anglo-American feminist discourse, meaning the social, cultural, and psychological meaning imposed upon biological sexual identity (Showalter 1-2). Interpreting femininity and masculinity as gender constructions allows a more thorough analysis of the various processes involved in the making of men and women. Whilst the term sex suggests that children naturally acquire the appropriate masculine or feminine behavioural norms of their society, the term gender can alsoindicate that some people feel discrepancies between their anatomical sex and experiential sense of gender and sexuality (Showalter 2). After a short historical introduction about the origins of the play, I analyzed the masculine world of chivalry that the play takes place in. Understanding the world of chivalry, its values and codes is required as most of the male characters are construed as chivalrous knights serving in the corps of King Duncan.Enjoy!

NEUBUCH! 2008. 88 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 6 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V87513

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De Vivo, Alessandro: William Shakespeare: an analysis of Macbeth s character, GRIN VERLAG, August 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 364040775X
I would like to base my essay on the protagonist Macbeth.Probably composed in late 1606 or early 1607, Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, the others being Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. If Hamlet is the grandest of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth is from a tragic standpoint the most sublime and the most impressive as an active play.If we just consider the plot, Macbeth is a relatively simple play. In fact like Richard III and numerous pre-Shakespearean plays, it deals with a traditional form: the rise and fall of a great man.In the first part of the play we read about Macbeth's rise to power; then he manages to become king of Scotland. From this moment on he begins with a period of tyranny that will end with Macbeth's death and the accession to the throne of the legitimate king. For this reason he can be considered as the epitome of a tragic hero. In the course of the play we notice a great development of Macbeth's character. At the beginning he is a man much honoured by his countrymen for his leading and courageous part in defence of his good king and native land.During many conflicts he showed his great courage and he continues showing this personal quality also when he becomes king and he has to take a lot of difficult decisions. But this first description about Macbeth's character is not the definitive one: in fact as soon as we meet him, we find out also his negative qualities, for example that he is both ambitious and murderous.It happens when the two Scottish generals, Macbeth and his friend Banquo, returning victorious from the great battle against a rebel army assisted by the troops of Norway, meet three witches in the middle of the road. They begin to speak to Macbeth: the first of them greets him with the title of Thane of Glaning (so it is in the reality); the second follows by giving him the title of Thane of Cawdor, to which honour he has no pretensions; the third predicts that Macbeth will be king of Scotland. Then turning to Banquo, they prophesy that his son will be king of Scotland. So they turn into the air and vanish.After a while Macbeth and his friend are stopped by some messengers of the king, who are empowered by him to confer upon Macbeth the dignity of Thane of Cawdor: an event so miraculously corresponding with the predictions of the witches astonishes Macbeth, who begins to think about the other and more important prophecy...

NEUBUCH! 2009. 28 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V72750

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Gehrmann, Timm: Female Characters in "Macbeth", "Othello" and "Hamlet" GRIN VERLAG, September 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638768643
Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Shakespeare's Late Tragedies, 15 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: Why should one choose to examine the female characters of three of the most prominent Shakespeare plays although men are the protagonists in all of them Maybe because one may find certain parallels in the construction of woman characters in these Shakespeare plays which reflect the Elizabethan image of women in general. Maybe because Desdemona, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth are rather tragic figures with a developed character. All main female characters seem to have the same tragic element attached to them - namely their early unnatural death. Potter sees this early death as an erotic quality which seems to be inherent in all of Shakespeare's female characters1. All women seem to have loaded guilt upon them prior to their death. Lady Macbeth is guilty of at least helping in carrying out a murder. Gertrude is guilty of remarrying so quickly after her husband's death. But finding guilt in Desdemona and Ophelia seems rather hard to manage. Desdemona is found guilty by her husband but the audience knows she is not, while Ophelia may be found guilty by the reader to have betrayed Hamlet by not requiting his love. Apart from guilt obedience seems to play a major role in the context of the female characters. Othello wants his wife to be obedient and fears she is not - independent of whether he is present or not - but when he is present he uses force to make her obedient. Ophelia is also very obedient to her brother and her father, which constitutes the falsehood of her character and may thus play a major role in Hamlet's development. Gertrude is obedient to her husband the way a wife is supposed to be obedient. She does not have to be reminded and just blindly follows her husband in her words and deeds until the end of the play. Lady Macbeth may be an eception, but in the light of the reversal of order in Macbeth we may state that Macbeth is the obedient figure when he follows his wife's command. When we consider Macbeth to be a photonegative of the world we can find the obedience motive again. One may argue that when a lack of obedience persists chaos is come again which is exactly the consequence of all acts of disobedience of women in the three plays. The three witches who are not obedient to anyone, Lady Macbeth and the consequences of Desdemona's felt disobedience may serve as an example for the consequences of female disobedience.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 24 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V68982

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