Macbeth (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)

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Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

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Overview

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:

  • New Scholarship – Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
  • Contextualizing Essays – Essays on Shakespeare’s England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
  • Better Notes – Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.
  • Further Reading – An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading.

The only Shakespearean tragedy that has a villain as its hero, Macbeth presents a stark and disturbing view of the psychology of wickedness and guilt. The editor, Jesse M. Lander, draws on the early modern literature of witchcraft and demonology to provide an illuminating context for the play.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781411400375
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 1/25/2007
  • Series: Barnes & Noble Shakespeare Series
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 107,861
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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  • Posted February 10, 2011

    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 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 13, 2005

    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!

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 24, 2006

    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!

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 16, 2010

    An excellent edition at a great price - incl background material and annotations

    This is a steal for $2. It's not the bare-bones edition you'd expect for this price - it gives the reader a generous amount of additional material on the play, as well as historical background on the life and times of Shakespeare. The formatting is excellent, and the annotations are surprisingly thorough for a budget edition. Highly recommended.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 27, 2012

    HG SCAV HUNT

    Welcome to Team Magic! You must post as many reviews as possible on this book. The winner will be announced on Mockingjay on July 1.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 21, 2011

    taking a class on mabeth

    love the storyy

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2003

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2002

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 12, 2001

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2013

    Same old B&N mess!

    Typical e-book from B&N - filled with typos, margins are a mess! It is a play, but who can tell from the way it is put together.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 29, 2013

    It's not worth it!

    This file doesn't open, :(

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2013

    :)!!!!! Luv it!!!!

    :) :) :) :D

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2013

    One of the best books that I read

    This is one of the best books hated to turn off my Nook!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2013

    Idk i apologizeeeh

    Eddshusscfwiwssedcbsakdf

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 7, 2013

    Purely deadly

    Macbeth is sooo evil and its filled with so much of blood

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 5, 2012

    I love it.

    I love Macbeth! I played one of the "Weird Sisters" in my 9th grade production of it. "Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble. Fire burn, and couldren bubble."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2012

    Love ot Love it

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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2012

    recommended

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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 29, 2011

    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.

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