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This new edition of Macbeth for South African schools and collages has been updated to include comprehensive text notes and commentary throughout. This edition includes: an eight-page photographic gallery of scenes from various productions of the play. informative background information on Shakespeare and Elizabethan England an introduction to the play, the themes and characters a synopsis of the action in each scene line-by-line text notes giving explanations of unfamiliar words, interpretations of meanings, and stimulating commentary a selection of notes, illustrations, ideas and activities to increase your understanding of the play questions providing valuable examination practice a list of references offering suggestions for further reading and other useful resources an extensive glossary of useful words and literary terms.

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Macbeth is a blast...ghoulish...beguiling...sardonic...an expression of how captivating an evening of crackling Shakespeare can be. -- Peter Marks, The Washington Post

""""Macbeth"" is a blast...ghoulish...beguiling...sardonic...an expression of how captivating an evening of crackling Shakespeare can be."" -- Peter Marks, ""The Washington Post"" ""The explosive and overwhelming effect of a truck bomb...this horrific, riveting ""Macbeth"" ought to be seen by as many people as possible."" -- Terry Teachout, ""The Wall Street Journal""

"""""Macbeth"" is a blast...ghoulish...beguiling...sardonic...an expression of how captivating an evening of crackling Shakespeare can be."" -- Peter Marks, ""The Washington Post"" ""The explosive and overwhelming effect of a truck bomb...this horrific, riveting ""Macbeth"" ought to be seen by as many people as possible."" -- Terry Teachout, ""The Wall Street Journal"""

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