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  2. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" is an essay in Shakespearean criticism by the English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in the October 1823 edition of The London Magazine. It is No. II in his ongoing series "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium Eater" which are signed, "X.Y.Z.". [ 1 ]

  3. Objective correlative - Wikipedia

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    Eliot uses Lady Macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective correlative: "The artistic 'inevitability' lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion….", as a contrast to Hamlet. According to Eliot, the feelings of Hamlet are not sufficiently supported by the story and the other characters surrounding him.

  4. The Well Wrought Urn - Wikipedia

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    The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism. The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne's poem, "The Canonization", which is the primary subject of the first chapter of the book.

  5. Review: Ralph Fiennes, an older Macbeth, builds sympathy for ...

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    Macbeth, on the other hand, has lost his capacity to feel anything. Fiennes allows us to register the enormousness of this loss. It's easier in my experience to identify with and excuse the ...

  6. Review: 'Macbeth' brings classic Shakespearean tale to life

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    There are times when you walk into a nearly-empty theatre, 20 minutes before the theatre fills, and actors take the stage, and you are eager with quiet anticipation for what you are about to see.

  7. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...

  8. The Plays of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Johnson began work on Macbeth to provide a sample of what he thought could be achieved in a new edition of Shakespeare. [7] He got much of his information while working on the Harleian Catalogue, a catalogue of the collection of works and pamphlets owned by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. [7]

  9. Macbeth review: David Tennant is a compellingly intense ... - AOL

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    REVIEW: 3/5 Lady Macbeth’s whispers crackle in your ear as audience members wear headphones in Max Webster’s intimate production, but the sound design can sometimes feel like a distraction