The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare
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9780199535835 |
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Paperback |
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1 Jul 2008 |
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Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music.
In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre and investigates the sources of its enduring appeal. He examines its many layers of illusion and interprets its linguistic turns and echoes, arguing that the earliest surviving text is an adaptation, perhaps carried out by Shakespeare himself in collaboration with Thomas Middleton.
This fully annotated edition reconsiders textual and staging problems, appraises past and present critical views, and represents a major contribution to our understanding of Macbeth.
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Features
- Fully annotated edition of Shakespeare's tour de force.
New to this Edition
- Offers a fresh reconsideration of textual problems.
- Makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play within aesthetic history.
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Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
Editorial procedures
MACBETH
Appendices
Index
Authors
William Shakespeare
Nicholas Brooke is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia.