Macbeth Author:Shakespeare Unique features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare — Macbeth — Special introduction to the play by the editor, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theatre by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare Series, Sylvan Barnet. Source from which Shakespeare derived Macbeth - selections from Ra... more »phael Holinshed's The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, AC Bradley, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Cleanth Brooks, Oscar James Campbell, Mary McCarthy. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest most readable type. Name of each speaker given in full. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textual note. Extensive bibliography.« less
This is a good book for those interested in Macbeth or Shakespear. Gives good excercies, is clear and clean and organized, and asks proper questions for learners to consider.
This is a clasic work that will leave you wondering, who is the tale's true villian? Is this just a tale of the dangers of false assumptions? Or, if you choose a Freudian reading, is this a tale about role reversal between men and woemen? No matter which, this play will make the time you spend looking at it more than worth while.