- Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. "Shakespeare's Imagery in Macbeth."
- Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us. New York: Cambridge UP, 1935. 324-35. Rptd. in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Macbeth. Ed. Terence Hawkes. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977. 13-21.
- "The idea . . . that Macbeth's new honours sit ill upon him, like a loose and badly fitting garment, belonging to someone else" (13).
- "Another image or idea which runs through Macbeth is the reverberation of sound echoing over vast regions, even into the limitless spaces beyond the confines of the world" (15).
- "Another constant idea in the play arises out of the symbolism that light stands for life, virtue, goodness; and darkness for evil and death" (17).
- "The fourth of the chief symbolic ideas in the play is one which is very constant with Shakespeare, and is to be found all through his work, that sin is a disease--Scotland is sick" (18).
Bottom Line: Good stuff.