"He has no children": maternita, sterilita e fertilita nel Macbeth e in tre adattamenti cinematografici

This is a thesis in literary and film studies. It looks at how motherhood, infertility and fertility appear in Shakespeare's Macbeth and in three film versions, directed by Roman Polanski (1971), Justin Kurzel (2015) and Joel Coen (2021). It uses adaptation studies and feminist criticism to ask how film changed the meaning of the play for different social and cultural settings. It is not about the well-being of real children.

Key points

• The thesis studies motherhood, sterility and fertility in Macbeth.
• It compares film adaptations by Polanski (1971), Kurzel (2015) and Coen (2021).
• It uses adaptation studies and feminist criticism.
• Film is said to amplify some meanings of the text and change its essence in line with the social and cultural context.

Limitations

The document is only a short abstract of a literary and film analysis. It contains no data on children's well-being and does not evaluate any intervention.