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A case might be made for Macbeth as the most adaptable of Shakespeare’s plays. There is something about those terse profundities which it offers on the human condition which seem to cut through barriers of time and place. For some of its finest adaptors have aimed at borrowing a good deal more than plot.
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© 1985 Gordon Williams
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Williams, G. (1985). Adaptation. In: Macbeth. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06473-1_9
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