This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.
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This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.
Episode 243: Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Acts 4 and 5. The Bitter Outcome. Lady Macbeth Dies, Birnam Wood Comes to Dunsinane, Macbeth Falls. Can He Be Called a Tragic Hero?
Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education
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Episode 243: Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Acts 4 and 5. The Bitter Outcome. Lady Macbeth Dies, Birnam Wood Comes to Dunsinane, Macbeth Falls. Can He Be Called a Tragic Hero?
The murder of MacDuff’s family. MacDuff persuades Malcolm to return from England with English forces. Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, washing her hands. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane. Macbeth goes down fighting. Can Macbeth be called heroic, or is he merely a “dead butcher”? We admire ambitious men who trample all obstacles in their path, including other people, don’t we? A play for our time.
Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education
This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.