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The Student's Shakespeare: Macbeth: With Notes, Characters, Plot and Exam Themes
William Shakespeare
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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's finest plays, and presents a man's conscience and the effect of guilt on his mind. A dark and bloody play, Macbeth explores reality and illusion; witchcraft and the supernatural; ambition and kingship; the natural order; light and life, darkness and death; blood and dead babies. Written just after the Gunpowder Plot, and at a time when people were often tried for treason, Macbeth makes much of the beliefs of an extremely superstitious age. King James 1 believed in demons conjured by devils and wild women who could fly through the air, raise storms and tell ... Read more
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's finest plays, and presents a man's conscience and the effect of guilt on his mind. A dark and bloody play, Macbeth explores reality and illusion; witchcraft and the supernatural; ambition and kingship; the natural order; light and life, darkness and death; blood and dead babies. Written just after the Gunpowder Plot, and at a time when people were often tried for treason, Macbeth makes much of the beliefs of an extremely superstitious age. King James 1 believed in demons conjured by devils and wild women who could fly through the air, raise storms and tell ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Geddes & Grosset
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
The Student's Shakespeare
Condition
New
Weight
140g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Glasgow, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842058701
SKU
V9781842058701
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About William Shakespeare
Angela Sheehan, who introduces the play, is a Shakespeare enthusiast. She has had a distinguished career editing encyclopedias, educational texts and reference books for children, and published The Best-Loved Plays of Shakespeare and the Shakespeare for Everyone
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