ARTS1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Harold Bloom, Duncan I Of Scotland, Shakespearean Tragedy
16 Oct 2018
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Big picture of english literature: ancient israel, ancient greece, ancient rome, roman occupation of britain - 43-420ad, anglo-saxon - old english - 450-1066, middle english - 1066-1500, renaissance (early modern) - 1500-1660. Macbeth: shakespeare is writing in a tradition that is grounded in ancient israel, Important texts for shakespeare: ancient greek tragedies (sophocles, Euripides, aeschylus), philosophy and rhetoric, and audience roman tragedy (seneca) Supernatural world, witches foreseeing and foretelling, as well as influence over human affairs - towards macbeth, these are malignant - soliciting, suggestion to which macbeth yields - murdering. Macbeth: but in these cases / we still have judgement here, (1. 7. 7-12) - there is a system of justice that operates within the natural world. Macbeth: it will have blood, they say: blood will have blood (3. 4. 142-46) Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles - principle / law that governs the world.
