Overview
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s great drama of ambition, desire and guilt. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Macbeth in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are three interviews with leading directors – Rupert Goold, Gregory Doran and Trevor Nunn – providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare’s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended – as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare’s works for the twenty-first century.
Full Product Details
Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) ,
Jonathan Bate (University of Oxford, Oxford) ,
William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: The RSC Shakespeare
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.230kg
ISBN: 9780230576209
ISBN 10: 0230576206
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 23 April 2009
Audience:
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Secondary
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A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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"""I ""highly recommend"" Campfire's comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in a way that excites kids about classic literature."" -- Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom (a resource for teachers and librarians)"
""I ""highly recommend"" Campfire's comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in a way that excites kids about classic literature."" -- Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom (a resource for teachers and librarians)
Author Information
SIR JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare.' In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'. ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
