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  2. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. It is short: more than a thousand lines shorter than Othello and King Lear, and only slightly more than half as long as Hamlet. This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance. This would ...

  3. Sonnet 8 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 8, published in the 1609 Quarto, is part of the Fair Youth sequence (sonnets 1–126), which makes up the largest portion of Shakespeare’s sonnets (see the Rival Poet sequence). The Fair Youth sonnets center around one subject, who is a young, fair man. There is debate as to whom the subject is. Some theorize the sonnets are written ...

  4. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly arbitrarily, use this rhetorical form throughout the play. One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot. Linguist George T. Wright suggests that hendiadys had been used ...

  5. U. A. Fanthorpe - Wikipedia

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    Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge, [1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents". [2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life", [2] receiving a first-class degree in English language and literature.

  6. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - Wikipedia

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    As Freud himself conceded in 1923, the result was that "it may often have happened that what was old and what was more recent did not admit of being merged into an entirely uncontradictory whole", [15] so that, whereas at first "the accent was on a portrayal of the fundamental difference between the sexual life of children and of adults ...

  7. Macbeth (Nesbø novel) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth is a thriller novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, a re-telling of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience. This is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. Macbeth was released in April 2018. [ 1] The book tells the story of Macbeth in a dystopian, imaginary Fife during the 1970s.

  8. Macbeth (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [ 1] is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare 's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 ...

  9. Malcolm (Macbeth) - Wikipedia

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    Donalbain, younger brother. Malcolm is a character in William Shakespeare 's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is based on the historical king Malcolm III of Scotland, and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of Britain. He is the elder son of King Duncan, the heir to the throne, and brother to ...