The respected Alexander edition of the play contains the full text, notes and supplementary information especially prepared for school use.
Chapters include:
The Theatre in Shakespeare's day
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Introduction to the Play
The Language of the Play
Characterisation
Plot
Dramatic Structure and Thematic Pattern
Characters, Text and Notes
Also included is a Theme Index and a reading list
This book is part of a book series called The Alexander Shakespeare .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 1973 by HarperCollins Publishers .
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.
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