This is a useful guide to studying Shakespeare's enthralling tragedy. ""Macbeth"" is Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume the throne of Scotland. This new study guide to ""Macbeth"" includes a selection of the finest criticism from the 17th and 18th centuries up to the 21st, providing an essential resource for readers interested in one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. An introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive character list, and a biography of Shakespeare round out this in-depth study aid.It includes criticism from: Samuel Pepys (1664-1668); Samuel Johnson (1745); Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818); Victor Hugo (1864); A.C. Bradley (1904); Sigmund Freud (1916); John Berryman (1976); and, William Empson (1986).
This book is part of a book series called Blooms Shakespeare Through the Ages .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Chelsea House Publishers .
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.
This book contains the following story:
Macbeth
Macbeth is the bravest general in Scotland, and a loyal servant to King Duncan. But then three witches plant the seed of criminal ambition by suggesting that one day he could be king himself. Mad with ambition, and spurred on by Lady Macbeth, Macbeth sets out on a killing spree of former friends and rivals as part of a bloody path to power, until a final confrontation when he realizes too late that the witches have deceived him.
