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Explore more articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance writers

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Examine rich subject matter from Juliet's eloquence to misunderstanding in Othello.

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‘Unsex me here’: Lady Macbeth’s ‘hell broth’

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‘Unsex me here’: Lady Macbeth’s ‘hell broth’

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Sandra M. Gilbert considers how Lady Macbeth in her murderous ambition goes beyond prescribed gender roles, but in doing so only succeeds in monstering herself and becoming a parody of womanhood, until madness again confines her to feminine helplessness.

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Created by Michael Donkor in collaboration with the British Library Learning team

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Macbeth in context: teacher's resource pack. Agency and blame

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Macbeth in context: teacher's resource pack. Agency and blame

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Focusing on ideas of agency and blame, this pack is full of activities using rich sources from the British Library to explore themes of kingship, witchcraft, marriage and Shakespeare's use of sources in Macbeth.

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Focusing on characterisation, language and imagery, Michael Donkor analyses Lady Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth, and considers how this scene fits into the play as a whole.

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Character analysis: The Witches in Macbeth

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Character analysis: The Witches in Macbeth

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Looking at context, language and form, Carol Atherton provides a close analysis of the Witches in Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth.

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Manhood and the ‘milk of human kindness’ in Macbeth

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Manhood and the ‘milk of human kindness’ in Macbeth

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The tragedy of Macbeth revolves around the question of what it means to be a man, argues Kiernan Ryan.

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Macbeth and Shakespeare's linguistic innovation

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Macbeth and Shakespeare's linguistic innovation

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In Macbeth, Shakespeare coins an extraordinary number of words and phrases, including 'assassination', 'unsex' and 'stealthy'. David Crystal shows how these linguistic innovations help express the action and atmosphere of the play and the troubled psychology of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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Explore 100 of our best loved articles, perfect for teachers of Years 10–13.

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Much of Macbeth is set at night, yet its first performances took place in the open air, during daylight hours. John Mullan explores how Shakespeare uses speech and action to conjure the play's sense of growing darkness.

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Created by Patrick Cragg in collaboration with the British Library Learning team

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Macbeth in context: teacher's resource pack. Gender

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Macbeth in context: teacher's resource pack. Gender

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Focusing on the contrasts of gender in the play, this pack gives ready-to-teach ideas for bringing Macbeth to life, through rich sources from the British Library. Unfortunately, the hyperlinks do not currently work, due to a cyber-attack in 2023.

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10692 Discovering Literature CPD Macbeth Resource V2

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Professor Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare podcasts 

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Professor Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare podcasts 

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Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.

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Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.