Macbeth: Fully annotated edition with over 900 textual notes (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

 
9781847495136: Macbeth: Fully annotated edition with over 900 textual notes (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847495133 ISBN 13: 9781847495136
Verlag: Alma Books Ltd., 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a profound examination of how psychological coercion mixed with personal ambition can lead to murder - and how individual impulses can shape both a man's own destiny and the course of history.

Written in around 1606 and published in the First Folio of 1623, Macbeth is presented here in a fully annotated edition that will make the text accessible to twenty-first-century readers, enabling them to appreciate its poetry andencouraging them to delve deeper into its variegated and complex history.

Textual Approach: Light editorial approach making the text more accessible to modern readers - Meticulous editing, faithful to the first Folio of 1623 - Over 900 textual notes for a clearer or fuller understanding of a word, sentence or passage - Historical notes at the end of the book Additional notes about variants - Appendix with modernised and annotated Holinshed text - Includes Middleton's witches' songs - Takes into consideration all modern Shakespeare scholarship - Provides new insight into one of Shakespeare's major tragedies.

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An English poet and playwright of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in English literature and the national poet of England. His plays are the most performed of any playwright, and have been translated into every living language.

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Part of Alma Evergreens series, this new edition of Macbeth is presented here in a fully annotated edition that will make the text accessible to twenty-first-century readers, enabling them to appreciate its poetry and encouraging them to delve deeper into its variegated and complex history.

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Verlag
Alma Books Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847495133
ISBN 13 
9781847495136
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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