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    Macbeth
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    Macbeth

    By William Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare's classic tragedy of evil magic, destiny and regicide in 16th century Scotland. Often known as 'The Scottish Play', due to a long-standing traditional superstition about naming the play.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Classics
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781782340379
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

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    • 5/5
      Classic tragedy.
    • 4/5
      I have no spur
      To prick the sides of my intent, but only
      Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
      And falls on the other.

      Last winter I heard a report on NPR about Stalin's dacha in Sochi. Such featured some curious design features including a bulletproof sofa with extended headrests that prevented his head being exposed from behind to an assassin. The curtains were also shorter in length from the top to prevent someone from hiding from behind them. As I drove I mused as to what sort of world-view would emerge from someone's sense of self and safety?

      The Bard's tale chooses not to address the policy of Macbeth but rather allows him only time to address his version of destiny in such a spirited supernatural environment. Macbeth is a rushed affair. It lacks the splendid pacing of Hamlet. Apparently Fortune favors the breathless as the narrative steps are sprinted and obstacles leaped like some wonky Wuxia. Despite all the gore, there isn't a great deal of introspection or even calculation. Such is strange but not so much as some things one finds on the Heath.(postscript: I just watched the Patrick Stewart led PBS film version: it was simply an avalanche.)
    • 4/5
      Fascinating scholarly edition, but looking forward to the updated Arden edition, to be released in 2014.
    • 5/5
      ‘Let it come down.’Macbeth is a remarkably saturnine, poisonous play: a thread of muddy doom is woven through the fabric of its plot, and any hint of redemption obscured by dark, threatening clouds. That its skeleton is constructed with certain stock materials—vaulting ambition punished, the insidious and cruel female, the equivocal and often deleterious nature of prophecy—is curious given its transcendence of the maudlin trappings of most of these sorts of tragedies: Macbeth takes place, after all, on a somewhat epic-scale; unlike similar fictions, however, it doesn’t squeeze in its more human elements as mere padding between its battle scenes: the play is its human elements. Despite the conspicuous spilling of blood and the sometimes convoluted machinations of its political contexts, Macbeth is truly a tragedy of the soul.Relationships are strained here; and that of Lady Macbeth and her husband is, obviously, the most interesting and complex Shakespeare is offering: the veil between sanity and madness is delicate in a play where guilt is consistently put further on the backburner as the atrocities pile up. Lady Macbeth, seemingly a seething black hole of corruption and evil, provides us with an interesting contrast to the slow devolution of her husband: her own guilt manifests behind the curtain of consciousness, only reaching its climax offstage, where her (implied) suicide—and its motivation—remains somewhat mysterious and open to interpretation. Macbeth, on the other hand, remains unrepentant to the last, and we are treated to his gruesome undoing in exacting detail. Shakespeare has loaded the duality that exists in both of these characters with a great deal of psychological weight: the tension that boils between them is more complex than murderer and accessory (and we can pick who fits which title). Lady Macbeth’s convictions exist undeterred until she is confronted with their ramifications after-the-fact; Macbeth’s own convictions waver in the face of forethought, but once the transaction has been purchased with blood, he stands behind them, unwavering, to his very death. A haunted couple, they have become archetypes in our literature.Macbeth’s relationship with Banquo is less baroque. Banquo provides a foil of reason to Macbeth’s decline: Banquo represents the innocent who stands on the just side of fate, while Macbeth rises heavenwards, like Icarus, chasing destiny with dire results. This begs a question, however: how much of what takes place in Macbeth is solely the work of destiny? Certainly one can say that the prophecies regarding both Banquo and Macbeth coming to their fruition is confirmation of the play’s propensity towards the supernatural, but of Macbeth’s pursuit of fate…this is more curious: after all, why plot to kill Duncan and make yourself king if the cards have already been laid out towards this end? Or are Macbeth’s crimes exactly what the prophecy infers? This question could be argued in circles, certainly, because it exists beyond the constraints of the play. Macbeth’s vision is very dark, however, and I would lean towards the latter conclusion: predestination requires a fated evil as much as a fated good, and we do not always find ourselves in the position to choose. This is one of the more troubling truths examined in Macbeth.Macbeth is obsessed with the supernatural: with fate, with visions, with incantation, with prophecy. It is entirely natural, then, that its characters should be shrouded in the gloom of uncertainty: each of these people is swallowed up by the fog that surrounds them, whether for eventual good or ill. None of them leave this play without experiencing shattering transformation, both internal and external. But the play goes beyond average considerations in pursuit of more metaphysical themes: it suffocates us with its horrors and leaves us disconcerted by their import—chews at our hopes as much as at our fears. It implies, without beating us over the head, that perhaps free will is a more complicated privilege than we’d care to admit: that perhaps even that most elemental of freedoms is subject, somehow, to the caprices of fate.
    • 4/5
      We have much to learn from Maestro's use of language. In Macbeth, it is surprisingly accessible and fast-paced.

      I marvel at his choice at what occurs offstage, like the murder of Duncan. Yet the murder of Macduff's family, including children, happens for all to see. It is postulated that the Duncan scene was cut by someone else. But it actually does something interesting. It increases Macbeth's increasingly murderous character, intensifies his evil as a progression in his paranoia.

      I have many more thoughts , of course, but I must stew. Perhaps I'll return to solidify my thoughts on this masterly work of art.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my absolute favorite plays by Shakespeare. The "Scottish Play" contains the supernatural, riddles and memorable quotes. It is a testament about the times and a warning to those that would deceive others to get what they want. This play is a must read/see!
    • 4/5
      Macbeth and Banquo defeat two armies of enemies. Later three witches appear and prophesy that Macbeth will become a thane of Cawdor, eventually the king of Scotland, and Banquo will beget a line of Scottish kings. Unsure, neither of them are too concerned. When things are starting to come true, Macbeth tells his wife the good news. Lady Macbeth wants her husband to kill Duncan, the king, so that the rest of the prophecy will come true. Macbeth would become king if the present king "died". He stabs Duncan and the two watchers. Fearful that Banquo's heirs might inherit the throne, he hires murderers to kill him and his son Fleance. Fleance has escaped death and becomes Prince of England. He raises an army and fights Macbeth. Macbeth is killed and beheaded. This play was entertaining and had some rhyming. It was easier to read than most Shakespeare plays because it didn't have many characters. It was a quick read. It only took a few days. It was violent and not happy but understanding. I could read this book again. I would recommend this book to anyone 6th grade and up.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorites! Macbeth's corruption, Lady Macbeth's savage ambition, the deliciously spooky menace of the witches... It's just such fun! And perfect late October reading (I could pretend that I fell behind in my “All Shakespeare in a Year” reading just so Macbeth would fall at the right time of year.)I've read this quite a few times before – my kids acted in an adapted version when they were small, in which “the Curse” was demonstrated when our Macbeth tripped and split his forehead on the edge of the cauldron, and my daughter was the cutest little witch ever – and, as with most great literature, the play just gets better with each reading. This time I supplemented my reading with Garry Wills's “Witches and Jesuits,” which, while perhaps a bit overstated in its claims, is interesting and pointed me to some aspects I'd previously missed, and also Marjorie Garber's wonderful chapter on the play in her “Shakespeare After All.” The Arkangel recording, with Hugh Ross and Harriet Walter (and David Tennant as the porter!) is marvelous, and, as a fun “extra” I watched the Shakespeare Retold version, in which Macbeth is a very ambitious head chef in a popular restaurant. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      'Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. By the pricking of the thumbs, something wicked this ways comes.'That just about sums up Macbeth, the epitome of self-fulfilling prophecies and ambition. Macbeth, driven by the witches' prophecy, murders all who stand in his way of power.
    • 4/5
      Audiobook. It was done like a play and very enjoyable =)
    • 4/5
      I read this play my senior year of high school, and immediately enjoyed it more than HAMLET, especially because of the three Witches. And when my teacher pointed out that the punctuation within one of Lady Macbeth's paragraphs seems to connotate that she is reaching orgasm simply by talking about all the power she is about to obtain, I was hooked. I love several of the monologues.
    • 5/5
      I can't believe I hadn't read this sooner and hope to see a production of it one of these days. I must say I have a soft spot in my heart for the three weird sisters.
    • 3/5
      Although I'm an English teacher, I have to admit that Macbeth is not one of my personal favorites. Does that mean that the play isn't brilliant? Absolutely not. Shakespeare, once again, exhibits the full range of characteristics and emotions that a human can display. Great play about the way a seemingly good man, can descend into the madness of becoming greedy and a murderer.
    • 4/5
      studied this play during 2nd level education. Certain lines still stick with me to this day. Amazing to think of its sheer impact, centuries into the future (and still going strong!).
    • 5/5
      I don't recall reading Macbeth since high school, yet as I listened to the audio version I found myself quoting lines along with the actors. The play seems like it's full of cliches, yet it's the source for phrases like “vaulting ambition”, “a charmed life”, “be-all and end-all”, and “milk of human kindness”. Reader that I am, I also caught several book titles “borrowed” from its lines: Borrower of the Night (Elizabeth Peters), Look to the Lady (Margery Allingham), Light Thickens (Ngaio Marsh), By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Agatha Christie), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury), The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner). I'm a long-time fan of the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, so it was a little disconcerting to hear Siegfried Farnon (i.e., Robert Hardy) in the role of Duncan. That aside, it's an exciting dramatization of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful play with so many great things going on. One of my favourite lines comes when MacDuff learns that his family has been killed. He says, "Oh, my pretty chickens!" As those of you who've read the play will know, much of it revolves around the idea that fair is foul and foul is fair. Pretty chickens are fair fowls. I can't help but wonder if Shakespeare did that deliberately.Stuff like that kills me.
    • 3/5
      Actually enjoyed this one, and I typically loathe reading Shakespeare. This and Hamlet are the only ones worth reading, in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      Opening with the prophecies of the three witches always caught my imagination. I love how the story relates to that throughout the play, and also how Macbeth is intrigued that he may indeed become king. It adds a great, dramatic effect. Beginning to end this is a brilliantly written play.
    • 3/5
      I think this is one which needs to be seen. It seemed very slow to me, aside from the bits with murder and ghosts.
    • 5/5
      Dark and supernatural, Macbeth is one of my favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies. One of the biggest questions I always ask is, "Would the weird sisters' prophecies come to pass even if Macbeth hadn't gone all murder crazy?"Macbeth is a great cautionary tale of the dangers of ambition, especially when it comes to power. Shakespeare explores what lengths men will go to for power, especially when they believe it is owed them.Adding this copy to my Little Free Library in hopes that someone in the neighborhood can learn something from it, especially as certain phrases remind me of the current political climate and I know the way my neighbors tend to vote.
    • 4/5
      A shakespeare play full of tragedy, love, and a crazy hunger for power. An amazing play by William Shakespeare.
    • 2/5
      “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble!” {pg. 82}Comprised of five acts, The Tragedy of Macbeth starts as three witches agree to meet up again after a battle is fought. Originally, Macbeth starts off being portrayed as a hero, having led King Duncan’s forces successfully in battle, and hence will get a new title. The witches flatter his ego by telling him of the titles he will receive - more than he could ever have hoped - and that he will become king, ultimately.From then on, Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth become ‘evil’, and pursue the witches’ prediction, and plot to kill Duncan. They have become greedy from the prediction. The play then follows their corruption, the murders they commit, and their ultimate downfall.I prefer to watch Shakespeare’s plays rather than read them, especially when they’re very long. Lucky for me, The Tragedy of Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s shortest plays and probably has the easiest message to comprehend-the corrupted nature of power and greed, and the terrible affects it can have. However, The Tragedy of Macbeth is Shakespeare’s equivalent of a summer blockbuster. Entertaining with lots of action (fight scenes, murder), oddities (witches, ghosts, prophesies, hallucinations, and insanity) but poor character development and nothing intellectual to take from the play.
    • 5/5
      My all time favorite.
    • 4/5
      My daughter has shamed me a bit in recent months. She's been on a Shakespeare kick--purchasing his works here and there from book sales and the like. Me, I've read a couple of plays and seen one or two others on television. I've never got around to reading these treasures of English literature. It was this shame, and the need to find a book that would fit in my lunch box, that led me to check out Shakespeare's Macbeth. 'Tis the tale of a Scottish thane or chieftain who, tempted by a cryptic prophecy, murders his king and tries to cover it up. There is much bloodshed and guilt, all set in iambic pentameter. The story was enjoyable enough, though I have to confess, I read through the synopsis before attempting to tackle the 17th Century English. (This, the Oxford School Shakespeare edition, is chock full of notes to help us poor students along in our studies.) Reading it spoiled the drama, but also helped me follow the story. So anyway, now my own guilt has been assuaged--for the nonce--and I can get back to reading more modern fluff. I don't think the child has procured a copy of Othello yet, anyway.--J.
    • 5/5
      Macbeth; Complete Study Edition. William Shakespeare, edited by Sidney Lamb. As soon as I found out the Shakespeare Festival was putting on Macbeth, I knew I wanted to see it, but I held back when I found out this production was to be set in a post-apocalyptic society. I have always wanted Shakespeare the way I think “it’s ‘sposed to be.” But the more I thought about it, the more intrigued I was. So when I decided to see it, I decided to re-read it, and I am glad I did. This is good edition for people like me who haven’t read Shakespeare. There are plenty of explanatory notes that explain the history surrounding the play and the unfamiliar vocabulary.
    • 4/5
      Macbeth performed is one of the most thrilling and engrossing plays I've ever seen. Macbeth read is...well. It's Shakespeare's shortest play, and I feel like that is apparent in the rather harried and haphazard plot, the miscellany of characters who wander in and out and are never seen again, and the lack of character development for pretty much everyone who isn't Macbeth himself.But on the other hand, this play is the source of some of the greatest speeches ever written - "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,...Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."I mean, it's just gorgeous.
    • 4/5
      Seems like a lot of build up to just suddenly end like that. Damn those witches and their doubletalk. Pro tip: mention this play as often at theatres as possible.
    • 4/5
      Was a great book, at the time I had a teacher who understood how to make Shakesphere approachable to students.It could easily be staged as a leadership bid at one of those Fortune 500s all over Wall Street.
    • 4/5
      I read Macbeth when I was younger -- year seven or so -- and watched some kind of adaptation of it made for TV. I didn't remember it well enough to do any kind of review (and Shakespeare is usually too recent for me, and irrelevant for my purposes, since he never touched on the Matter of Britain). Anyway, I had a long car journey today, and a pound or two left of a gift certificate, so I bought myself Macbeth and Hamlet for my Kindle.

      I still don't like reading plays, but it is funny when reading Shakespeare's plays to realise how often they're quoted by everyone, often by people who don't know what they're quoting. My cousin quoted Shakespeare at dinner today: I'm not sure he's ever read a book in his life.

      Macbeth is a powerful play, even just in text, and I wish I could see it performed.
    • 5/5
      This was my father's, now it is mine. Each fan of Shakespeare has read this one. It's a goodie.

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    Macbeth - William Shakespeare

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    Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.

    Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches.

      1. When shall we three meet againe?

    In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine?

      2. When the Hurley-burley's done,

    When the Battaile's lost, and wonne

    3. That will be ere the set of Sunne

    1. Where the place? 2. Vpon the Heath

    3. There to meet with Macbeth

    1. I come, Gray-Malkin

       All. Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire,

    Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre.

    Exeunt.

    Scena Secunda.

    Alarum within. Enter King Malcome, Donalbaine, Lenox, with attendants, meeting a bleeding Captaine.

      King. What bloody man is that? he can report,

    As seemeth by his plight, of the Reuolt

    The newest state

       Mal. This is the Serieant,

    Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought

    'Gainst my Captiuitie: Haile braue friend;

    Say to the King, the knowledge of the Broyle,

    As thou didst leaue it

       Cap. Doubtfull it stood,

    As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together,

    And choake their Art: The mercilesse Macdonwald

    (Worthie to be a Rebell, for to that

    The multiplying Villanies of Nature

    Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles

    Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd,

    And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling,

    Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake:

    For braue Macbeth (well hee deserues that Name)

    Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele,

    Which smoak'd with bloody execution

    (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage,

    Till hee fac'd the Slaue:

    Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him,

    Till he vnseam'd him from the Naue toth' Chops,

    And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements

    King. O valiant Cousin, worthy Gentleman

       Cap. As whence the Sunne 'gins his reflection,

    Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders:

    So from that Spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,

    Discomfort swells: Marke King of Scotland, marke,

    No sooner Iustice had, with Valour arm'd,

    Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heeles,

    But the Norweyan Lord, surueying vantage,

    With furbusht Armes, and new supplyes of men,

    Began a fresh assault

       King. Dismay'd not this our Captaines, Macbeth and

    Banquoh?

      Cap. Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;

    Or the Hare, the Lyon:

    If I say sooth, I must report they were

    As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,

    So they doubly redoubled stroakes vpon the Foe:

    Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,

    Or memorize another Golgotha,

    I cannot tell: but I am faint,

    My Gashes cry for helpe

       King. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds,

    They smack of Honor both: Goe get him Surgeons.

    Enter Rosse and Angus.

    Who comes here?

      Mal. The worthy Thane of Rosse

       Lenox. What a haste lookes through his eyes?

    So should he looke, that seemes to speake things strange

    Rosse. God saue the King

       King. Whence cam'st thou, worthy Thane?

      Rosse. From Fiffe, great King,

    Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie,

    And fanne our people cold.

    Norway himselfe, with terrible numbers,

    Assisted by that most disloyall Traytor,

    The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismall Conflict,

    Till that Bellona's Bridegroome, lapt in proofe,

    Confronted him with selfe-comparisons,

    Point against Point, rebellious Arme 'gainst Arme,

    Curbing his lauish spirit: and to conclude,

    The Victorie fell on vs

    King. Great happinesse

       Rosse. That now Sweno, the Norwayes King,

    Craues composition:

    Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men,

    Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes ynch,

    Ten thousand Dollars, to our generall vse

       King. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue

    Our Bosome interest: Goe pronounce his present death,

    And with his former Title greet Macbeth

    Rosse. Ile see it done

    King. What he hath lost, Noble Macbeth hath wonne.

    Exeunt.

    Scena Tertia.

    Thunder. Enter the three Witches.

    1. Where hast thou beene, Sister? 2. Killing Swine

       3. Sister, where thou?

      1. A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe,

    And mouncht, & mouncht, and mouncht:

    Giue me, quoth I.

    Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.

    Her Husband's to Aleppo gone, Master o'th' Tiger:

    But in a Syue Ile thither sayle,

    And like a Rat without a tayle,

    Ile doe, Ile doe, and Ile doe

    2. Ile giue thee a Winde

    1. Th'art kinde

    3. And I another

       1. I my selfe haue all the other,

    And the very Ports they blow,

    All the Quarters that they know,

    I'th' Ship-mans Card.

    Ile dreyne him drie as Hay:

    Sleepe shall neyther Night nor Day

    Hang vpon his Pent-house Lid:

    He shall liue a man forbid:

    Wearie Seu'nights, nine times nine,

    Shall he dwindle, peake, and pine:

    Though his Barke cannot be lost,

    Yet it shall be Tempest-tost.

    Looke what I haue

    2. Shew me, shew me

    1. Here I haue a Pilots Thumbe, Wrackt, as homeward he did come.

    Drum within.

      3. A Drumme, a Drumme:

    Macbeth doth come

       All. The weyward Sisters, hand in hand,

    Posters of the Sea and Land,

    Thus doe goe, about, about,

    Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,

    And thrice againe, to make vp nine.

    Peace, the Charme's wound vp.

    Enter Macbeth and Banquo.

    Macb. So foule and faire a day I haue not seene

       Banquo. How farre is't call'd to Soris? What are these,

    So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,

    That looke not like th' Inhabitants o'th' Earth,

    And yet are on't? Liue you, or are you aught

    That man may question? you seeme to vnderstand me,

    By each at once

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