Why does Lady MacBeth go mad?
Professor Danielle Clarke, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, scours the text of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy for clues to explain Lady MacBeth's descent into obsession and paranoia. She suggests that the seeds of this mental vulnerability were in place from the beginning, and that perhaps it was her ambition for herself, and her husband, that was her undoing.
Dr Danielle Clarke is Associate Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature at UCD. Her undergraduate teaching areas include the study of Shakespeare’s Styles, Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, and Critical readings of works such as Paradise Lost.
See Also:
- Study English at UCD
- See Dr Clarke’s students’ adaptation of the Merchant of Venice on YouTube
- UCD School of English, Drama & Film
- Hear Nobel-prize winning poet, Seamus Heaney, speak at UCD in 2009
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