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“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”—Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University 

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About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.   A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.   Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England and The Illusion of Power.

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Product details

Series: The Pelican Shakespeare

Paperback: 144 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; 1 edition (March 29, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780143128564

ISBN-13: 978-0143128564

ASIN: 0143128566

Product Dimensions:

4.9 x 0.4 x 7.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

1,059 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#173,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Purchased this as required reading for my sons' high school literature classes. They have used several in the series, and it makes understanding Shakespeare MUCH easier. They juxtapose the traditional play on one side with modern translation on the other....most kids don't realize what amazing stories he tells because the language just seems...well, weird. They can finally understand what the teacher is actually trying to talk to them about -- imagery, figurative language, symbolism and style -- in a way they can actually relate to. Very useful book to expand on why Shakespeare was one of the greatest storytellers of his time.

There are many versions of Shakespeare's play that give excellent annotations, and as far as that goes, I like the layout of the book. But the line numbers are done wrong. This will not matter to many, and if you don't care about line numbers then this will be a good book for you. I teach English and spend a couple of class periods explaining how the numbering works and how two or three actors can each have a single part of a single line of poetry. None of that lesson works with this book except to point out how even editors can get it wrong or don't really care. Still I want to emphasize that if you are not picky about line numbers then this is a 5-star book for you--good intro and good materials at the back of the book.

I didn't actually realize this was a book/DVD combo. I just wanted the DVD but the book version is very nice as well. I'm a teacher and used this DVD at a previous school but my current school didn't own a copy so I bought this one. This presentation is a video of a stage production and I really like how it's done. In a few scenes, the producers have meshed two parts together or switched a couple things around but I actually like it because I feel like it flows better and make sense chronologically. If you're showing it for school just be aware that the Macbeths engage in PDA pretty frequently and there is a generous use of fake blood. All in all I feel the producers do a great job of staying true to the play itself and also the vibe Shakespeare would have probably been going for while helping modern audiences relate to it.

This is a fast moving and rather swashbuckling and bloody staging of the Scottish play. It isn't as creepy and scary as the Patrick Stewart version currently available - aside: Stewart really worked at creating scary and succeeding. . . However, this version does scare as all sorts of odd things and people (ghosts and witches and daggers) magically appear onstage in a way that would make Penn and Teller proud... It is really entertaining. OF all the versions of the Scottish play I've seen staged and listened to, this is the one I would show to a younger audience. The stage is smallish and serves up an easily followable play. The dialog is understandable and not overly dense. The players are earthy, dirty, stinky, and not well mannered (sometimes). It is easy to Identify with those characters. It is still one of Shakespeare's bloodiest plays. So beware of that.

The format on kindle is odd. I think the printed version would work better. The line numbers don’t match up with what the teacher quotes, and they are hard to determine while you are reading because of the way the pages are formatted. BUT, the modern interpretation is very helpful for my 15 year old. AND you can search key words like fair and foul, which make finding quotes (if not their proper line numbers) fast and easy.

In the theater, people apparently don't call Shakespeare's "Macbeth" by its actual name -- it's usually called "MacB" or "The Scottish Play." The dark superstitions that hover around this play really show its power: it's a harrowing portrait of a weak man who spirals into a personal hell of ambition, murder and madness.Shortly after a victory in battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo are traveling home across a heath when they encounter three witches -- who greet him with "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!"When MacBeth is made Thane of Cawdor, he naturally begins to think that being king might be next in line. And when King Duncan visits his castle, Lady MacBeth goads her husband into murdering the king and framing a couple of innocent servants for the deed. As the witches predicted, MacBeth becomes king of Scotland.But the witches also prophesied that Banquo would be the father of kings, so MacBeth starts tying off loose ends by hiring assassins to kill Banquo and his young son, as well as a wily thane named MacDuff and all of his family. But though MacBeth believes himself to be safe from everyone, his fear begins to grow as madness and guilt torment him and his wife...One of the most fascinating things about "Macbeth" is how evil it is -- mass murder, insanity, bloody ghosts, a trio of manipulative witches pulling MacBeth's strings, and a nice if weak man who becomes a raving murderous paranoiac. Shakespeare starts the story on a dark note, and it gets darker and bloodier as the story winds on to its bleak climax.In fact, the entire story is a two-part spiral -- things get tighter and more intense, even as MacBeth and Lady M. get crazier and more violent. Shakespeare litters the story with brutally intense scenes (Banquo's ghost crashing the dinner, Lady M. trying to scrub her hands clean) and powerful dialogue ("Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,/And look on death itself! up, up, and see/The great doom's image!").The one flaw: Shakespeare's handling of the "no man born of woman" prediction is a bit lame. I mean, didn't that count as "born" back in Elizabethan times too?Honestly, MacBeth is both a fascinating and repulsive character. He starts off as a nice ordinary thane with no particular ambition, but his weakness and his wife drive him to some pretty horrible acts. Before long, he's become somebody you desperately want to see diced into little pieces. And Lady Macbeth is little better, although there's a slight disparity between her ruthless ambition and her later insanity."MacBeth" is a story filled with stormy darkness and all-consuming fire -- a powerful depiction of evil and how easily we can be seduced. Just don't say its name in the theater.

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