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Macbeth, Lady, nineteenth century representations of 3, 119–41;

as barbaric and passionate 122–9, 137, 139;

as domesticated and caring 129–37, 140;

as fallen woman 135–6, 140–1;

Ellen Terry as 128–29;

Sarah Siddons as 122–23, 129

Macbeth (Shakespeare) 110, 181;

misquoted 204;

value and meaning of 28;

see also Macbeth, Lady

McGann, Jerome 199

McPherson, Heather 139

magic as theme see Mama Day

Mama Day (Naylor) 2, 9–10, 103–18, 205;

plot 103–4;

signifying and Shakespeare parallels 104–18

Mamet, David 204, 205

Mansfield, Elizabeth 56

marriage 112, 186–7;

as goal see romance novels;

intermarriage see miscegenation;

‘law’ and ‘lore’ 43–4

Marsden, Jean I. 208

Martin, Michelle 60–1

Marxism 20, 22, 23, 26, 31

Matched Pairs 56

Matheson, Tom 101

matriarchy see Mama Day

Mattelart, Armand 179

Maynard, John 152, 158

Meadows, Kenny 126–8, 131, 132, 134

Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) 43, 204

melancholy see ‘Mourning and Melancholia’

men:

major authors/producers see Branagh, Browning, Disney;

major characters in plays see Hamlet, King Lear, Othello;

major critics see Quiller-Couch;

male child’s desire see Oedipal;

male texts re-visioned see feminization;

masculinity of Browning 153, 154, 157;

masculinity in Lion King 179, 186–7, 188;

masculinization of Hamlet 277

see also father;

homosexuality;

patriarchy;

sexuality

Men Were Deceivers Ever (Veryan) 50

Men and Women (Browning) 145, 150, 155

Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) 105;

Portia 9, 11, 59

Michaels, Kasey 52, 53

Michiko Kakutani 189–90

Middleton, Thomas 199, 205

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare) 110, 185, 201;

and romance novels 51, 55

Mill, John Stuart 158

Milsand, Joseph 145

Milton, John 15, 29–30

miscegenation fears;

and Mama Day 105–6, 108–9;

and Paul Robeson 7;

in Othello performance 66–7, 68, 78

misprision (misreading) of text 9–10

Miss Billings Treads the Boards (Kelly) 57

Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career (Grimsley) 55

Mitra, Amal 70, 76–7, 78, 79, 82

modernism and postmodernism 5–6, 193, 195, 199–200;

see also films;

Mama Day;

Thousand Acres

Montaigne 108

Monteith, John 203

Moore, Charles 183

Morris, William 150, 151

Morrison, J.Cotter 155

Morrison, Toni 103, 106, 114, 199

Mote, W.H. 132

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