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Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics) Paperback – 5 May 1992
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. The cruel ironies of their destiny are conveyed in poetry of unsurpassed power. In the theatre, this tragedy remains perennially engrossing.
- ISBN-101853260355
- ISBN-13978-1853260353
- EditionAnnotated
- PublisherWordsworth Editions
- Publication date5 May 1992
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions12.73 x 0.69 x 19.81 cm
- Print length128 pages
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- Our Shakespeare series is edited by Professor Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Professor Watts has written introductions, notes and glossaries for all twenty of the key Shakespeare plays that we publish in our Classics series.
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However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton
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- Publisher : Wordsworth Editions; Annotated edition (5 May 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1853260355
- ISBN-13 : 978-1853260353
- Dimensions : 12.73 x 0.69 x 19.81 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1 in The Works of William Shakespeare
- 11 in Drama (Books)
- 121 in Fiction Classics (Books)
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.
Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.
(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)
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I hadn’t read any Shakespear since my achool days (Julius Ceasur) and I’d been told to read that so it wasn’t a leisure pleasure.
The drama in this short story and how it’s still taught today was very enlightening is a testament of its continuing stature (and Shakespeare’s) in literature.
I was very surprised just how much I truly enjoyed this. I’ll try another soon