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Adelman, Janet. "'Born of Woman': Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth." 1987.

Topic: The play as symbolic of the struggle between masculine and feminine identity.
Grade: C-

Bartholomeusz, Dennis. Macbeth and the Players. 1969.

Topic: Actors' interpretations of the parts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Grade: C

Berger, Harry, Jr. "The Early Scenes of Macbeth." 1980.

Topic: Contrarian view of King Duncan and the health of the Scottish body politic.
Grade: F

Blissett, William. "The Secret'st Man of Blood." 1959.

Topics: Dramatic irony. Motifs of "air, blood, seed, and time."
Grade: C+

Booth, Stephen. "Macbeth, Aristotle, Definition, and Tragedy." 1983.

Topics: Tragedy, Macbeth.
Grade: C-

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. 1905.

Topics: Atmosphere, the Witches, character analysis.
Grade: A

Brooks, Cleanth. "The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness." 1947.

Topics: Metaphors in Macbeth.
Grade: A

Calderwood, James L. Macbeth and Tragic Action. 1986.

Topics: Avant-garde theories about Macbeth.
Grade: D

Driver, Tom F. "The Uses of Time: Oedipus Tyrannus and Macbeth." 1960.

Topic: Macbeth v. Time.
Grade: C+

Elliott, G. R. Dramatic Providence in Macbeth. 1960.

Topic: A Christian approach to Macbeth.
Grade: D

Everett, Barbara. "Macbeth: Succeeding." 1989.

Topic: The failure of Macbeth's success.
Grade: C+

Felperin, Howard. Shakespearean Representation. 1977.

Topic: The modernity of Macbeth.
Grade: C

Fergusson, Francis. "Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action." 1952.

Topic: Macbeth as "the imitation of an action . . . which may be indicated by the phrase 'to outrun the pauser, reason'."
Grade: C

Foakes, R. A. "Images of death: ambition in Macbeth." 1982.

Topic: Macbeth's ambition.
Grade: B+

Frye, Northrop. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. 1967.

Topic: The nature of tragedy, kinds of tragedy.
Grade: D

Gardner, Helen. "Milton's 'Satan' and The Theme of Damnation in Elizabethan Tragedy." 1948.

Topic: "the deforming of a creature in its origin bright and good, by its own willed persistence in acts against its own nature"
Grade: B

Gohlke, Madelon. "'I wooed thee with my sword': Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms." 1980.

Topic: Feminine values in Macbeth.
Grade: C

Goldberg, Jonathan. "Speculations: Macbeth and source." 1987.

Topic: Deconstructionist speculations.
Grade: F

Goldman, Michael. "Speaking Evil: Language and Action in Macbeth." 1985.

Topic: Macbeth's psyche.
Grade: C

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare Bewitched." 1993.

Topic: Shakespeare's treatment of the Witches.
Grade: C

Heilman, Robert B. "The Criminal as Tragic Hero: Dramatic Methods." 1966.

Topic: The problem of how or whether the audience identifies with Macbeth.
Grade: B+

Holloway, John. The Story of the Night. 1961.

Topic: Revolt v. Providence.
Grade: D

Hopkins, Lisa. The Shakespearean Marriage. 1998.

Topic: Feminist view of Shakespeare's portrayal of marriage.
Grade: D

Hunter, Robert. Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments. 1976.

Topic: Macbeth in light of Christian theories about damnation.
Grade: B

Jorgensen, Paul. Our Naked Frailties:

Sensational Art and Meaning in Macbeth. 1971.

Topic: The sources of the emotional effect of Macbeth.
Grade: A

Kahn, Coppélia. "The Milking Babe and the Bloody Man in Coriolanus and Macbeth." 1981.

Topic: Macbeth's manliness.
Grade: B

Kimbrough, Robert. "Macbeth: The Prisoner of Gender." 1983.

Topic: "the personal and social destructiveness of polarized masculinity and femininity"
Grade: A

Kirsch, Arthur. The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes. 1990.

Topic: The truth to life of Macbeth's character.
Grade: A

Knights, L. C. "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?" 1933.

Topic: "How should we read Shakespeare?"
Grade: B

Mack, Maynard. "The Many Faces of Macbeth." 1993.

Topic: Various observations about the play.
Grade: B+

Mack, Maynard Jr. "The Voice in the Sword." 1973.

Topic: The meaning of kingship.
Grade: A

McAlindon, T. Shakespeare's tragic cosmos. 1991.

Topic: Various themes in Macbeth.
Grade: C

McElroy, Bernard. "Macbeth: The Torture of the Mind." 1973.

Topic: Macbeth as a tragic hero who is repulsed by his own criminality.
Grade: A-

Moretti, Franco. "'A Huge Eclipse': Tragic Form and the Deconsecration of Sovereignty." 1982.

Topic: The historical consequences of the tragic form.
Grade: D

Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare: The Great Tragedies. 1966.

Topic: Various.
Grade: D

Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage 1988.

Topic: "the negotiation and production of social meaning"
Grade: F

Murray, J. Middleton. "The Time Has Been." 1936.

Topic: The effect of their crime on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Grade: B+

Norbrook, David. "Macbeth and the Politics of Historiography." 1987.

Topic: Relationship between Macbeth and political ideologies of Shakespeare's time.
Grade: C

Paul, Henry N. "The Royal Play of Macbeth. 1950.

Topic: The influence of King James on the writing of Macbeth.
Grade: B

Rosen, Michael. Shakespeare and the Craft of Tragedy. 1964.

Topics: The audience's reaction to Macbeth's character.
Grade: A

Rosenberg, Marvin. The Masks of Macbeth. 1978.

Topics: All the different ways that Macbeth has been viewed by critics and played on stage.
Grade: B

Sanders, Wilbur. The Dramatist and the Received Idea. 1968.

Topic: Shakespeare's philosophical complexity.
Grade: B

Sewell, Arthur. Character and Society in Shakespeare. 1951.

Topic: Macbeth as a sociopath.
Grade: C

Sinfield, Alan. "Macbeth: history, ideology, and intellectuals." 1986.

Topic: "Oppositional analysis" of the play's political implications.
Grade: F

Spender, Stephen. "Time, Violence, and Macbeth." 1941.

Topic: The theme of time in Macbeth.
Grade: C

Spurgeon, Caroline. "Shakespeare's Imagery in Macbeth." 1935.

Topic: Imagery, particularly the images of Macbeth's clothes.
Grade: A

Stallybrass, Peter. "Macbeth and witchcraft." 1982.

Topic: Witchcraft as a patriarchal construct.
Grade: C

Stirling, Brents. "'Look, how our partner's rapt'." 1956.

Topic: Themes of "darkness, sleep, raptness, and contradiction."
Grade: C

Thompson, Edward H. "Macbeth, King James and the Witches." 1993.

Topic: The background of Shakespeare's portrayal of the Witches.
Grade: B

Waith, Eugene M. "Manhood and Valor in Macbeth." 1950.

Topic: Moral and humane manhood v. manhood as simple valor.
Grade: A

Wells, Stanley. "A Scottish Tragedy: Macbeth." 1994.

Topic: General introduction.
Grade: B+

Whitaker, Virgil K. The Mirror up to Nature: The Technique of Shakespeare's Tragedies. 1965.

Topic: Christian interpretation.
Grade: C

Willbern, David. "Phantasmagoric Macbeth." 1986.

Topic: Psychoanalytic interpretation.
Grade: F

Williams, Raymond. "Monologue in Macbeth." 1983.

Topic: Types of soliloquies and monologues.
Grade: F

Wilson, Harold S. On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy. 1957.

Topics: Tragedy, Macbeth's character.
Grade: B

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