Manjula K. T.

Lying Like Truth: Equivocation, Witchcraft, and the Unstable Self in Shakespeare's Macbeth

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and, by common consent, his most concentrated study of a mind in the act of undoing itself. This article argues that the play's famous linguistic doubleness its riddling prophecies, its paradoxes of fair and foul, its obsession with words that mean two things at once is not mer...