The Tragedy of Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Overview

"Macbeth" is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest and perhaps flatter James I, it has established its place among the world's great tragedies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781397831
Publisher:	Benediction Books
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

No writer will ever equal William Shakespeare's influence on the English language. Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, "The Bard" was an actor and playwright who had staged his own shows in London by 1592. Though little is known about his early life, he forsooth proved himself a virtuoso for the ages. Expanding the boundaries of the English language, Shakespeare penned dozens of plays -- from enduring tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, to bawdy comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream -- plus more than 150 sonnets during his towering career. He shuffled off this mortal coil in 1616, but more than half a millennium later, his works are still read and produced around the world, including at a modern thatched-roof reconstruction of his troupe's Globe Theatre in London.

Editorial Reviews

"An outstanding text for teaching Macbeth to college students."—Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J., Georgetown University

"Excellent! Covers an enormous amount with scholarship and imagination in the introduction. A brilliant antidote for anyone who has suffered Macbeth in high school—excites further inquiry and a burning desire to see it performed again."—Nell Altizer, University of Hawaii

"Invaluable, both as an introductory text and as an authoritative edition for serious scholarship. Students find the notes at the bottom of the page (as oposed to at the end of the text) handy and useful."—Sarah Liu, University of California, Berkeley

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