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Author Degünther, Alina, author

Title Good and evil in Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth / Alina Degünther
Published Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (39 pages)
Series Compact
Compact.
Contents Good and Evil in Shakespeare ́s King Lear and Macbeth; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Concepts of Good and Evil in Renaissance; 3. Good and Evil in King Lear and Macbeth; 3.1 Forces of Goodness: Cordelia and Banquo; 3.2. Forces of Evil: Edmund and Lady Macbeth; 3.3. Challenging Concepts of Good and Evil: Lear and Macbeth; 4. Resolving Evil? The Final Scenes; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography
Summary The concepts of good and evil, which can be understood and defined differently, are two broad and sapid concepts because of its diverse interpretations. The two abstract notions have been discussed throughout the centuries since the human existence and continue to be a dispute today. However, the meaning of good and evil was especially interesting in the middle Ages and Renaissance that will be introduced in the first part of this thesis. It will present the different origins of good and evil and examine how variously these concepts were perceived in the middle Ages and Renaissance. It shoul
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Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 16, 2014)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Political science
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
King Lear (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political science
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783954895649
3954895641