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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of MacbethDark 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 it...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 01 June 2008
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Shakespeare Plays | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
- ISBN 13: 9780199535835 ISBN 10: 0199535833
- Sales rank: 31,414
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Full description for 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 edition reconsiders textual and staging problems, appraises past and present critical views, and represents a major contribution to our understanding of Macbeth.
