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Macbeth


Illustrated Shakespeare

Key stage: Key Stage 3

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No. of pages 96

Published: 1989

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Great for age 11-14 years

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Pupils will be able to prepare for the Key Stage 3 tests using this series of Shakespearean texts. Design shows scripts as perfomance texts, motivating pupils'interest with illustrations and photographs of the productions. Pupils will be provided with tasks to aid understanding and extended study through questions integrated throughout the text, and GCSE coursework activities. The text is more accessible due to the fact that text and notes are laid out in a larger format than other editions. Understanding of the plot development and themes is enhanced by a running commentary at the beginning of each scene.

 

This book is part of a book series called Illustrated Shakespeare .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1989 by Oxford University Press .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.

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.

This book is in the following series:

Illustrated Shakespeare

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