• ISBN13: 9788126934973
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 18, 2022
• Pages: 268
• Original Price: INR 475.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 290 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential play, Macbeth encapsulates the greatest Christian tragedy of all: the Fall of Man. An elaborate and glaring depiction of the human condition stimulated by temptation and sin, Macbeth examines the significance of good and evil in people’s lives, a question as hugely relevant today as it was in the early seventeenth century. Shakespeare’s greatest psychological portrait of self-destruction, Macbeth is a vivid dramatization of the psychological repercussions of unbridled ambition. Incorporating a broad spectrum of current scholarly and interpretive approaches, the anthology attempts to examine the various critical, gendered, theatrical, and cinematic interpretations of this classic tragedy. Addressing seminal aspects like Damnation, Gender Ambiguity, Freewill, Conscience, Morality, Power, Fate, Regicide, Tyranny, Ambition, Guilt, Witchcraft, and Imagery, the eighteen essays in this anthology are a brilliant tribute to the tragic vision of Shakespeare. The anthology addresses itself to scholars of English literature and strives to open a new and fruitful direction in the study of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the scholars, researchers, and students of English literature.

Prof. Sunita Sinha, a gold medallist from Patna University, is presently the Principal at Women’s College, Samastipur, affiliated to L.N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar. She has to her credit twenty-seven books which have been highly acclaimed in academic circles. Her authorial ventures include Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels, Post-Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives, and Rethinking Gender: Masculinity, Femininity and Queerity in Postcolonial Indian Fiction. Her edited books include New Urges in Post-Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons, Reconceiving Post colonialism: Visions and Revisions, Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions, Canons of Children’s Literature, Shakespeare: A Reappraisal, Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence: In Honour of Dr. R.K. Sinha, Indian Women Writing in English: A Feminist Study, Exploring Feminism: Essence and Ethos, Young Adult Fiction: Issues and Trends, Feminist Slants in Contemporary Writings, Marginalized Voices in American Literature: Margins and Fringes, and Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. She has participated in many national and international seminars and conferences and has written many scholarly papers which have been published in various national and international books and journals. Currently, she is the Chief Editor of three international journals: The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, The Atlantic Literary Review, and The Atlantic Critical Review.

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1. On the Porter and the Sound of Knocking in Macbeth
• Subir Dhar
• 2. Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare
• Bryan Reynolds
• 3. The Sound and Fury of Macbeth
• A Tale Signifying Some Things about Self-Fashioning, the Art of Drama, and Shakespeare Himself
• Jeffery Moser
• 4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Tragedy of Persistent Willed Violation of Morality
• Reena Mitra
• 5. From ‘God’s anointed’ to ‘Power’ Conception: A Study of Kingship in Macbeth
• Nibedita Mukherjee
• 6. Gender Ambiguity and the Triumph of Patriarchy in Macbeth
• Sarani Ghosal Mondal
• 7. Significance of the Opening Scene in Macbeth
• Suchismita Ghosh
• 8. “Where the Place?”: Spatial Politics in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
• Arunabha Ghosh
• 9. Macbeth: A Man of Troubled Conscience
• Shahaji V. Gaikwad
• 10. Re-reading the Evil in Macbeth via Salman Rushdie: Notes from a Contemporary Postcolony
• Atul V. Nair
• 11. Hostage as a Motif of Drama: A Perspective on Macbeth
• B.C. Nayak
• 12. Primordialising Shakespeare: Macbeth and Maqbool
• Saloni Prasad
• 13. Macbeth: A Fallen Angel
• Samira Sinha
• 14. ‘What bloody man is that?’: Interrogating the Metaphor of Criminality in Shakespeare’s
• Macbeth
• Susanta Kumar Bardhan and Raj Raj Mukhopadhyay
• 15. Lady ‘Macbeth shall sleep no more’: Understanding Lady Macbeth’s Sleepwalking in Terms of Humoral Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Beyond
• Suprabhat Chatterjee
• 16. Paradox of Courage and Fear in Macbeth
• Ankit S. Gaikwad
• 17. The Deconstructive Instability in Shakespeare’s Vision of Kingship in Macbeth
• Priyankar Datta
• 18. Use of Imagery in Macbeth
• Arnab Chatterjee
• Index