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Horst Breuer writes in a 1976 articles from the Modern Language Review <\/em> : \u201cStrange as this may seem to readers unaccustomed to this kind of historical perspective, Macbeth\u2019s murder is a historically progressive act, an emancipation from feudalism and Catholicism, a violent plunge into the doubts and solitude of the New Age. Shakespeare, however, is clairvoyant enough to show that this liberation from medieval bondage may lead to an even more horrible kind of enslavement, namely to inhumanity and self-alienation. The New Age has forfeited the comforting safety of life under the tutelage of God\u2019s holy church and the king\u2019s feudal lords, and spiritual loneliness and insecurity take the place of the old stability and maturity.\u201d <\/p>\n On this reading, Macbeth <\/em> is about the new world of the post-Reformation era, and prophesies its hazards and confusions, leading ultimately to the despair of \u201cTo-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Horst Breuer writes in a 1976 articles from the Modern Language Review : \u201cStrange as this may seem to readers unaccustomed to this kind of historical perspective, Macbeth\u2019s murder is a historically progressive act, an emancipation from feudalism and Catholicism, a violent plunge into the doubts and solitude of the New Age. Shakespeare, however, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"yoast_head":"\n