Macbeth makes us identify and sympathise with a murderer | John Boe 2011 |
Lady Macbeth is reduced to an insignificant person… as a result of a patriarchal portrayal of her gender | Marion Davis 2009 |
Macbeth defines a particular kind of evil, the evil that results from a lust of power | L.C Knights 1933 |
a morality play, written in terms of Jacobean tragedy… bought to retribution by his death | William Farnham 19C |
victory of the masculine over the feminine, with there being at the play’s end a totally masculine world, Lady Macbeth dead and the witches gone | Marilyn French |
[the witches give] the impression of mighty and inscrutable forces behind human life | Harold Goddard 1951 |
the danger of ambition well described | Samuel Johnson 1745 |
Macbeth’s deed is done in horror and without the faintest desire or sense of glory | A.C. Bradley 20C |
Macbeth Critical Quotes
January 1, 2020