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Title: Macbeth
Condition: New
EAN: 9780300106541
ISBN: 9780300106541
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 08/03/2005
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Weight: 204g
Author: William Shakespeare
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300106548
Description: The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
 
“To be able to read Macbeth with the eye of one of our profession’s top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well as the mind.”—Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University
 
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. This extensively annotated edition makes Macbeth completely accessible to twenty-first-century readers and provides a rich resource for students, teachers, and general readers.
 
Burton Raffel’s on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the reader’s understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Macbeth—his favorite of Shakespeare’s high tragedies—is the playwright’s most internalized drama.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Burton Raffel (Edited by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Annotated Shakespeare
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Year: 2005

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