Shakespeare William:
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 272 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199535835
ISBN-10: 0199535833
List price: £7.99
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's 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 play's 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

