SOURCE: Foakes, R. A. “Images of Death: Ambition in Macbeth.” In Focus on Macbeth, edited by John Russell Brown, pp. 7-29. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
In the following essay, Foakes characterizes Macbeth as Shakespeare's most complex examination of ambition and its brutal potential.
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