Shakespeare, William

New York. 1964. May 1963. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Edited & With An Introduction and Notes By Sylvan Barnet . 247 pages. paperback. CD161. Cover: Milton Glaser. keywords: Signet Classic Shakespeare Drama England Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Unique Features Of The Signet Classic Shakespeare MACBETH - Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet. Source from which Shakespeare derived MACBETH - selections from Raphael Holinshed's THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, A. C. Bradley, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Cleanth Brooks, Oscar James Campbell, Mary McCarthy. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Name of each speaker given in full. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textual note. Extensive bibliography. inventory #31331