The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) William Shakespeare , Edited by Nicholas Brooke


Description
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeares 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 plays 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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Product details

Format Paperback | 272 pages
Dimensions 129 x 196 x 15mm | 287g
Publication date 20 Aug 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Annotated
Edition Statement Reissue
Illustrations note halftones
ISBN10 0199535833
ISBN13 9780199535835
Bestsellers rank 67,181