Macbeth - William Shakespeare, New Edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)_clone

192 Index questioning of Macbeth’s as villian, 1–2 manhood by, 47, 52n10, 66, Macbeth (Shakespeare) 104–105, 164–166 compared with Hamlet, 7–32 relationship between Macbeth dramatic form of, 26–29 and, 102–108, 113, 156, 162 dramaturgical design of, 118–119 eloquence of, 5–6 sleepwalking by, 71, 111–112, maternal power in, 33–59 167–168 meaning in, 20–23 models for, 12 witches and, 40–41 murders committed in, 117–130 Lady Macduff (Macbeth), 117, 119– prophecy in, 13–14, 18–19, 28, 120, 125–127, 140, 172 29, 33, 44–45, 48–50, 26168– language 26170 sexual underplot in, 101–115 ambiguous, 105–106 sources for, 62 in Macbeth, 8, 68–70 time in, 28 as magic, 71 tragedy in, 73–84 privacy of, 65–66 Macdonwald (Macbeth), 46–47, 152 as prophecy, 69–71 Macduff (Macbeth), 15, 25, 45, sexual overtones in, 103–113 143–144 of the Witches, 77–78 absence of, 11, 172–173 Laplance, Jean, 70 Caesarian birth of, 67–68, 86, 171 Leggatt, Alexander, 73 dialogue between Malcolm and, literary criticism, 64 87–89, 90–92, 97n3, 99n14 duel between Macbeth and, 19 Macbeth (Macbeth) manhood and, 47–50, 58n39, Ahab and, 2 58n40 childlessness of, 87–99 murder of wife and children of, endodynamism of, 160–161, 117, 125–127, 140, 172 165–166 as opposition to Macbeth, 171– as endostatic, 152–161 175 as existentialist, 24 portrayal of, 119–120 focus on future by, 14–15, 26 madplay, 18, 19, 23, 28 Herod and, 131–145 magic, 71 as hero-villain, 85–86 Malcolm (Macbeth), 87–92, 97n3, identification with, 1–2, 4 98n10, 99n14, 173–175 imagination of, 1–4, 6, 9–11, 21 male identity, 34 individuality of, 4 male violence, 152 Macduff and, 171–175 Mallory, George, 82 masculinity of, 42–43, 164–166 man-child, 43–45, 57n32 moral sense of, 153–155 manhood, 52n10, 58n40, 164–166 motivations of, 82 definition of, 47–48, 104–105 murders committed by, 117–130 Macduff and, 47–50, 58n39, relationship between Lady 58n40 Macbeth and, 4–5, 102–108, masculine power, 48–50, 151–152 113, 156, 162 remorse felt by, 158–159 responsibility of, 75–76

Index 193 masculinity, 36–38, 42–43, 45, Nietzsche, Friedrich, 26 58n39, 66, 162, 164–165 nihilism, 73, 74, 159, 161 nursing, 40, 55n20 Masks of Macbeth (Rosenberg), 89–90, 96 Oedipal conflict, 2, 4, 53n16, 118, 120, 125 maternal malevolence, 38–40, 44, 45, 54n17, 93 “On Incomprehensibility” (Heidegger), 64–65 maternal milk, 40, 55n20 maternal power, 33–59, 66–68 Ophelia (Hamlet), 13 McElroy, Bernard, 157 ordo prophetarum, 132–133 meaning Othello (Shakespeare), 125 otherness, 125–127 overdetermination of, 70 overdetermination of meaning, 70 without and within, 20–23 Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 102 Paradise Lost (Milton), 77–78 melodramatic responsiveness, 61 parental authority, 120–121 Melville, Herman, 2 parental status, 85–99 metadrama, 24–25 parricide, 53n16 metaphors, of the stage, 3 past, 12–15, 26, 141–142 metaphysics, 70 Philosophical Investigations Milton, John, 77–78 mirror-self, 122–125 (Wittgenstein), 65–66, 69 Moby-Dick (Melville), 2 philosophy, 64–66, 69 mother-child bond, 125–127, 129n26 play, 17–20 mother’s womb, 35–36, 67–68, 108, Porter (Macbeth), 108–110, 112 152 presence, 28–29 motivation, 81–82 present, 28 Muir, Kenneth, 153, 168, 170–171 privacy, 62, 65–66 Mullaney, Steven, 65, 68, 144 projection, 123, 129n20 murder, 5–6 prophecies of Banquo, 117, 122–125, 159, Banquo’s reaction to, 168–169, 170 160, 166 in Bible, 78–81 of Duncan, 8–10, 12–15, 17–18, language as, 69–71 of the Witches, 13–14, 18, 19, 26, 22, 38, 53n16, 111–112, 117– 121, 141, 157–158 28, 29, 33, 44–45, 48–50, 68, of Lady Macduff, 117, 125–127, 77, 86 140, 172 protentive mode, 28 masculinity and, 37–38, 42–43 psychological disintegration, 118– “The Murder of Gonzago” 127 (Macbeth), 18 mysticism, 6 quell, 105–106 narcissism, 125, 129n26 reactive, 11–12 natural world, 19, 74, 136, 151 reality, 17–20 negation, 23–26 regicide, 8–10, 12–15, 18, 111–112, negative transcendence, 3 new historicism, 64, 119 117–118, 120–122, 141, 157–158

194 Index remainder, 26 historical, 142 responsibility, 75, 78–79 obsession with, 3–4, 6 responsiveness, 61 references to, 111–112 retentive mode, 27 Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 110 revenge, 8–9, 11–13, 16, 17, 21, trace, 26 tragedy, 1, 73–84 23–24, 27 Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), Richard III (Shakespeare), 34–35, 112 tyranny, 68, 70 51n7, 118 riding symbolism, 103 unnatural birth, 40 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 112 Rosenberg, Marvin, 89–90, 96 Vickers, Brian, 111 Ross (Macbeth), 87–89, 97n3 visionary tragedy, 1 Sanders, Wilbur, 119 Waith, Eugene, 52n10 Santons of Provence, 137 wakefulness, 15 Satan, 77, 83n6 Weimann, Robert, 132 Schlegel, Friedrich, 64, 69 Weimis, James, 34 Scotland, 49–50 Weird Sisters. See Witches self-birth, 47 Williams, George, 123, 124, 142 sexuality, 101–115 Wills, Garry, 98n10 signification, 29 witchcraft, 68, 70, 76 sleep, 15–17, 71, 158 witchcraft beliefs, 41–42, 55n21, sleepwalking, 71, 111–112, 167–168 soliloquies, 122–123, 140, 143, 154–155 56n25, 56n26 stage action, 19 Witches (Macbeth), 4, 8, 9, 12 stageplay, 18, 20 Staines, David, 131 cauldron of, 152 Stewart, J. I. M., 153, 157 dark powers and, 151–152 subjectivity, 16–17 female power and, 36–39 sublimation, 121–123, 128n16 Lady Macbeth and, 40–41 superego, 120–121 language use by, 77–78 supernatural, 4, 8, 19 prophecies of, 13–14, 18, 19, 26, 29, supplement, 26 swordplay, 19–20 33, 44–45, 48–50, 68, 77, 86 symbolism, 103, 126 representation of, 40–42, 53n15, syphilis, 55n20 56n23 The Tempest (Shakespeare), 19, 34 role of, 75–77, 81–82, 86, 134 theatrical trope, 3–4 symbolism of, 126 witch’s mark, 55n21 tragedy and, 74–84 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 65–66, 69, 70 thinking, 71 woman, fantasy of escape from, 43– time 46, 49–50, 59n45, 67–68, 161 womb, 35–36, 67–68, 108, 152 death and, 72 wordplay, 18, 19, 23, 28 form and, 26–29 in Hamlet, 27 Young Siward (Macbeth), 45