On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth E-book
Author: Quincey Thomas De
Genre: Literature
English essayist and critic. Much of De Quincey's writings such as
Murder Considered One of the Fine Arts appeared in Blackwood's
Magazine and Tait's Magazine. De Quincey's most famous work,
Confessions of an Opium Eater was serialized in 1821 in The London
Magazine and tells of his vagabondage in Wales and his opium
addiction. His other works include Suspira de Profundis, Levana,
and Our Lady of Sorrows (1845), and The English Mail Coach (1849).
His works are collected in ten volumes.
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823)
First published in The London Magazine in October, 1823,
De Quincey's On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823) deals
with the scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth that follows the murder of
Duncan. De Quincey writes of the murderer who rages with "a great
storm of passion- jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred- which
will create a hell in him," and declares that it is "into this hell
we are to look."
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