10.5281/zenodo.810345
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Julie Barmazel Stiebritz
Julie Barmazel Stiebritz
California State University Channel Islands
"The Servant to Defect": Macbeth, Impotence, and the Body Politic
Routledge
2008
Macbeth, Shakespeare, Impotence, Infertility, Masturbation, Body Politic, Sonnets, Humours, Witchcraft, Menstruation, James I, Fatherhood, Puns, Dirty Jokes
2008-01-01
10.5281/zenodo.810344
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This book chapter, from Routledge's Macbeth: New Critical Essays, explores the play's elaborate network of puns about and allusions to Macbeth's sexual dysfunction, within the context of contemporary discussions of the body politic and bodily humours.