Ethical Choice and Melancholy: Lady Macbeth in Her Dreams.
Despite the large body of literature on Lady Macbeth, little research has been undertaken to demonstrate the relationship between the invocation by Lady Macbeth in the first act and the final dreams that imprison her. From the perspectives of literary ethical criticism and Early Modern dream theorie...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Foreign Languages & Cultures Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 119 - 130 |
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