Character Analysis: Macbeth

In today’s video, I look at Macbeth as tragic hero. Some of the references made in the video are:

Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’, which can be read here: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html
Dr Emma Smith’s Oxford University lecture, which can be listened to here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/macbeth
Wayne C Booth’s book, ‘The Essential Wayne Booth’
Robert B. Heilman's ‘The Criminal as Tragic Hero: Dramatic Methods’.

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