An unparalleled collection of early modern books, manuscripts, and artwork connected to Shakespeare, the Folger’s holdings have been consulted extensively in the preparation of these texts. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is the single greatest documentary source of Shakespeare’s works. The New Folger Editions of Shakespeare’s plays, which are the basis for the texts realized here in digital form, are special because of their origin. By making the classic texts of the New Folger Editions available in electronic form as Folger Digital Texts, we place a trusted resource in the hands of anyone who wants them. These expertly edited texts are presented to the public as a resource for study, artistic adaptation, and enjoyment. We still struggle to keep up with a writer who could think a mile a minute, whose words paint pictures that shift like clouds. Readers of the New Folger Editions are part of this ongoing process of “taking up Shakespeare,” finding our own thoughts and feelings in language that strikes us as old or unusual and, for that very reason, new. Since their composition four hundred years ago, Shakespeare’s plays and poems have traveled the globe, inviting those who see and read his works to make them their own. It is hard to imagine a world without Shakespeare. All Rights Reserved.From the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library There is nothing here like the "blood-bolter'd" culmination of Hamlet. Duncan is murdered off the stage Lady Macbeth dies off the stage Macbeth makes his final exit fighting, to be killed off the stage. There is, to be sure, a set scene for Banquo's murder: but it can be omitted without detriment to the play, and, in fact, always is omitted. Though it is full of blood and images of blood, the important blood-shedding is hidden, removed from the spectator's sight. Macbeth (as I have said and as others have said before me) curiously resembles Greek tragedy in a dozen ways, 10.) to Macbeth's mind, and his imagination embodies pity as an angel riding on the wind. This figure of a messenger seated upon the wind calls up a confused memory of a verse of the Bible (Psalms, xviii. "Pity" is first personified as a newborn infant, naked and miserable, such as would appeal to the sympathy of all men then this infant bestrides the wind for a charger to carry the news of Duncan's murder throughout the world. In this passage where the wild emotions of Macbeth's mind are struggling for utterance, one metaphor crowds upon and displaces another. Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed Macbeth fears Banquo is planning a coup to hasten the day of triumph for his heirs. Like Macbeth, Banquo knows that there were two key parts to the unearthly revelation: first, that Macbeth will become king, and second, that Banquo will beget future kings. Macbeth has killed Duncan and has become king of the Scots, yet he believes his crown is in jeopardy. Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, Untie the winds: Exploring the Witches' Control Over Nature in Macbeth Temptation, Sin, Retribution: Lecture Notes on Macbeth Shakespeare's Workmanship: Crafting a Sympathetic Macbeth Macbeth Study Quiz (with detailed answers) The Effect of Lady Macbeth's Death on MacbethĪesthetic Examination Questions on Macbeth
The Psychoanalysis of Lady Macbeth (Sleepwalking Scene)Įxplanatory Notes for the Witches' Chants (4.1) Soliloquy Analysis: She should have died hereafter (5.5.17-28)Įxplanatory Notes for Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy (1.5) Soliloquy Analysis: To be thus is nothing (3.1.47-71) Soliloquy Analysis: Is this a dagger (2.1.33-61) Soliloquy Analysis: If it were done when 'tis done (1.7.1-29)
The Royal Patent that Changed Shakespeare's Life Macbeth, Duncan and Shakespeare's ChangesĬontemporary References to King James I in Macbeth The Metre of Macbeth: Blank Verse and Rhymed Lines Please see the bottom of each scene for detailed explanatory notes and analysis.Please see the bottom of this page for helpful Macbeth resources.The complete text of Macbeth: Scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth
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