"'Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood': Birds and the Blurring of Boundaries between Real and Metaphorical Nature in Joel Coen's Macbeth"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo630/
Author:
	Heise-von der Lippe, Anya.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare in Southern Africa 35 (2022): 19–31.
DOI:
	10.4314/sisa.v35il.3
Annotation:
	Suggests that Joel Coen's Macbeth (q.v.) elaborates on avian imagery in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957), emphasizing the play's non-human and supernatural elements. Reads "unruly weather" and birds as representative or foreshadowing characters' emotions. English summary, 19.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Bosman, "Roundtable: Macbeth and Birds, on Stage and Screen"
	Coen, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Persons:
	Coen, Joel; Kurosawa, Akira
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Macbeth, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo630