Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library Series)

recommended

I loved ithis one . It had stage notes inaddtion to the play. This was the first play I'd read and it is still one of my favorites.

4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Outstanding Recording

I am an English teacher. I don't know how I would have survived without this audio-recording. It is wonderful! Love Lady Macbeth's Scottish accent!

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

taking a class on mabeth

love the storyy

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

OUTSTANDING background for play!

As a teacher of 11th grade English, I ordered this text because I was curious about its supplementary material. Now I am committed to the Norton Critical Editions for EVERY Shakespeare play I teach in the future! My students were amazed and sometimes enthralled with the incredibly rich background material which supplemented their study of Macbeth. They especially loved comparing Lady Macbeth's invocation of evil forces, and her declaration of imagined infanticide, with Seneca's Medea, in which Medea declares she will sacrifice her children to punish her cheating husband. They were incredulous that Macbeth's witches were actually mentioned several times in Holinshed's history. The factual background for Macbeth's rise and fall, set within the context of the eleventh century, gave them a deeper understanding of his inherent brutality. They also were better able to appreciate the modern aspects of his personality as interpreted by Shakespeare by contrasting the Bard's Macbeth with Holinshed's details of the actual historical Macbeth. And they really enjoyed learning that Lady Macbeth's real name was Gruoch. (Several said they're going to name their dog or their first daughter after her! Ha, ha!) WHAT A SUPERIOR SOURCE for any teacher! Please buy this if you are reading, studying, or teaching Macbeth!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Wonderful Literature

As a senior of a high school and strong emphasis on literature, I have personally read Macbeth and found it to be of great dramatized action. It defines many points to human nature and consequences to evil doings. In addition to the lessons that can be learned from Macbeth, it is great literature. It contains many motifs, symbols, and themes such as the theme of unchecked ambition. This book is great for the strong intellectual to the teen-age ambition to read violent and entertaining text but with actually lessons that can teach and grow in the minds of all young.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A TEACHER'S DREAM COME TRUE

This particular publication of Macbeth is the best thing that's ever happened to my curriculum. I teach this particular Shakespeare play in my sophomore English classes, along with Much Ado About Nothing...my favorite comedy! The fact that the left-hand side of the page contains notes, definitions is invaluable to me as a teacher (saves time from having to explain EVERY SINGLE WORD) and makes the student feel more capable of digesting Shakespeare's language. The introductory notes on Shakespeare's life, the theater, his language, wordplay are all invaluable tools to use in teaching. I now only use this version to teach all Shakespeare plays. Bravo!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Shakespeare's Best!

In my senior English class, we are currently reading this, and I seem to be the only person in the entire class who is enthusiastic. To me, this one from Shakespeare is much more easier to understand. A person may think the withches are evil, but the real villain is the diabolique, Lady Macbeth. Her soliloquies are of absolute brilliance and I love the way she makes Macbeth the way he is. What a sap!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Kat

I want to read it!!!!

I wanted a manga not this

I looked up manga so that i could have some for my nook this isnt a manga it sucks

My name is beth

I luv this book im the star!!!!!

Love ot Love it

I love it and im on the second page of scene 1

No

No line nubers

Amazing

Its an amazing tragedy that is presented very well. There are stage notes as well, so you can get a good image of the action onstage.

recommended

Great introduction and critical essays that help bring Shakespeare to life.

Perfect for teaching Macbeth

This is the best audio recording of Macbeth out right now. They use Scottish accents, there are sound effects, and the text is unabridged. My high school student prefer this over all other versions.

Is it approprite

Is this book approprite for someone around the ages of 12-16? im looking for something to read with my 14yr old niece. She reads everything .do you think she could understand it?

Do not buy - decent into notes, but formatting issues make play unreadable

Formatting issues in the text of the play render this just about unreadable.

Also, the Nook book runs 934 pages. The notes and text run to page 101; after that the footnotes get a page each then begin to grow more and more pages between them.

Love this

I read Macbeth in my British Literature class, and i absolutely loved it. I loved how Macbeth's choices led to his ultimate downfall. Since Shakespeare leaned on every archetype, he makes you realize that an event can happen to someone in this day and age.

Manga?

This was in the manga section???

Overall Okay

I loved this Shakespeare play; however, i found it a little disorienting having the sidenotes right in the middle of the dialogue. It made it a little hard to concentrate on the actual story, I kept having to go back and reread a few times just to remember what was going on.