Macbeth [Paperback]

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
 
“To be able to readMacbethwith the eye of one of our profession’s top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well as the mind.”—Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University
 
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as doesMacbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. This extensively annotated edition makesMacbethcompletely accessible to twenty-first-century readers and provides a rich resource for students, teachers, and general readers.
 
Burton Raffel’s on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the reader’s understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues thatMacbeth—his favorite of Shakespeare’s high tragedies—is the playwright’s most internalized drama.The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist“The polymathic scholar and translator Burton Raffel not only elucidates baffling terms but offers guidance on the prosody and declamation of Shakespeare’s lines, often to subtle effect, which will be useful to actors as well as readers.”—Eric Ormsby,New York Sun

Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006

Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary Scl£'