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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Franssen, Paul J. C. M.

Titel

Flipping Macbeth: PTSD, gender, and generation in adaptations by Wolfert, Kurzel, and De Man

Ist Teil von

• Cahiers élisabéthains, 2021-04, Vol.104 (1), p.81-94

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In recent adaptations by Justin Kurzel and Lucas de Man, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is less a play about a courageous warrior driven to murder his king out of ambition than about a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This article links these interpretations of Macbeth’s motivation to Stephan Wolfert’s one-man show Cry Havoc!!, which also relates Shakespeare’s plays in general to combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. This article argues that all three productions are symptomatic of our era in addressing Macbeth from the perspective of current constructions of masculinity as deeply problematic.