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1
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What technqiue does Kenneth Muir identify, and what does it create?

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Constant ‘antithesis’ between lines creates sense of ‘equivocation’

2
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Which technique does R A Foakes identify, and to what effect?

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Questions are a ‘means of concentrating emotion’, thus Macbeth is the ‘most intense’ of the tragedies as a result

3
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What does R A Foakes suggest of reality in Macbeth?

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It is not just complex, but ACTUALLY doubled

4
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What does Lauren Shohet suggests Macbeth asks?

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‘Macbeth asks how we know what we know: how we recognise, misrecognize, or fantacize interpretative strategies’

5
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What does Kent Cartwright say Macbeth:
A) concerns
B) does?

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A) ‘Renaissance epistemology’ regarding ‘the authenticity of lived experience’
B) ‘turns theatre into a way of knowing’

6
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What does Sean McDowell say causes Macbeth’s development?

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‘Flawed conjectures’ every time spur on his movement

7
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What does Stuart Clark call Macbeth?

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‘vision-centred drama’

8
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What does Arthur Kinney suggest Macbeth concerns?

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a ‘need to know and a fear of not knowing’ - appropriate to context, eg gunpowder plot; spy networks of Robert Cecil

9
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What does Robert Weimann argue fo teh porter?

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He acts as a contemporary of Shakespeare’s London [ask yourself: does he still serve this function today? Gatekeeper?]

10
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What does JG study and suggest?

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fireworks may have been let off on stage at “thunder and lightening” - suggests the smells of these would have had political implications [Gunpowder plot]

11
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How did Holinshed’s Chronicles depict MDuncan and Macbeth?

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Duncan had “too much of leniency”; Macbeth “of cruelty”