- Title
- Macbeth: The great doom’s image
- Creator
- Butler, Frederick G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454022
- Identifier
- vital:75305
- Identifier
- 10.4314/sisa.v26i1.5
- Description
- This lecture employs the old-fashioned technique of studying a group or cluster of images in order to arrive at a better understanding of the work. Macbeth has proved a particularly happy hunting ground for image chasers; this exercise differs from most others in attempting to show how a number of images, mainly in the first two acts and particularly in Act 1 Scene 7 and Act 2 scenes 1-6, recreate and then draw force from a sequence of quite specific events in the Christian ‘myth’ – rather in the manner that Joyce’s Ulysses exploits the Odyssey. Previous critics have detected in certain scenes references to particular incidents in that myth (such as the Porter’s parody of the Harrowing of Hell) and allusions to the general resurrection, as well as to the day of Judgement.
- Format
- 32 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Butler, G. 2014. Macbeth: The great doom’s image. Shakespeare in Southern Africa. 26, pp.75-107, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 26 number 1 75 107 2014 2071-7504
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Shakespeare in Southern Africa Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sisa/about)
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Butler, Frederick Guy (Prof)
RU Department of Literary Studies in English
RU Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
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