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Junior School Shakespeare: Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his best-known plays. Often referred to as an archetypal tale, it warns against lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Shakespeare based the play loosely on a King Macbeth of Scotland. The play is traditionally considered "cursed", and thus many actors refer to it as "The Scottish Play" to avoid naming it.

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Title:Junior School Shakespeare: Macbeth
Authors:William Shakespeare
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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    Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Pattty)
    Pattty: Si te gustó Hamlet seguro te gustará Macbeth, que es una historia buena y mucho más "macabra"
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    Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (Tallulah_Rose)
    Tallulah_Rose: "Wyrd Sisters" is a parody of "Macbeth", so everyone who enjoyed "Macbeth" might also like "Wyrd Sisters". On the other hand it's essential to have read "Macbeth" before reading "Wyrd Sisters".
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    Vulco1: It's there in the title. The Jo Nesbo one is a great update and reinterpretation.
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    themulhern: Shakespeare and Macbeth is a serious book for intelligent juvenile readers about the history, in both senses of the word, that inspired the play, and about the political circumstances that likely influenced Shakespeare's subject and his plot.
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I simply love this play, it's one of my most favourite books ever. I was only fourteen when I read it for the first time and I fell head over heels in love with Macbeth and his wife, and the witches, and the walking forest. I love this story, definitely five stars. ( )
  Donderowicz | Mar 12, 2024 |
I think these are plays you need to understand, before you understand. I know, that's a bit of oxymoron, but on first read, I spent more time on the footnotes and annotations than actually reading the story. Of course, it probably helps to see it performed as well. I'm glad I read, and its certainly going to be added to my reread pile, I think on second reading I will get considerable more out of it. ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Jan 25, 2024 |
It's a Shakespeare play so obviously it's not bad or anything. It has some beautiful parts and it's interesting to think about after you've read it. The story feels like it's missing a few parts - Macbeth's transition from loyal noble to regicide to king feels a bit unbelievable, I can't find out where it's actually revealed that it's Macbeth behind the murders, and it sort of goes from "Macbeth becoming king" to "everyone hates Macbeth" with nothing in between. And obviously the language is often pretty confusing, which is a big frustration but unavoidable. As a whole, it's pretty good but not astonishing, with some great language and interesting parts that make up for it. That sounds ridiculously philistine, but I'm talking about when I read it as a play in itself - the language issue kind of spoils some of the enjoyment and, apart from Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, none of the characters are interesting.

Interesting things to note: the focus on secrecy in the first act - both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth monologue on it separately. The change between everything being fine and everyone hating Macbeth noted above - the way nobles in the play act in general could be read as against aristocracy I feel, they're very amoral although not explicitly. Macbeth's acceptance of his fate at the end, and his weariness with being king. The ending which shows the Anglicisation of Scotland - this was a historical thing and it's weird to note that Malcolm rides in to Scotland at the head of an English army and then institutes the title of Earl.

As a comment on the edition I used (Yale Annotated Shakespeare) I didn't read the essay or introduction. The annotations were helpful but sometimes a bit over the top - in places near every word was annotated even when they were pretty common words and it didn't always help with understanding a while line. ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
Super. So many good lines, and the whole is really great, too. Also, it zips right along. The Arkangel performance has great accents, good delivery, and bagpipes! ( )
  themulhern | Sep 1, 2023 |
Well, I zipped through this one, having read it in college and recently watched Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood". I like it. I have to teach it this week, which seems a little daunting at this point, because it's a dense little play. There is a lot of symbolism, a lot of characters running around. I found myself referring to the notes more than I have with other plays by Shakespeare.

And it's bloody, mystical and twisted. This is probably the darkest Shakespearean tragedy that I am familiar with. Not much comic relief. And although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth receive their just desserts, there is no sense that the primitively violent culture changed as a result of their downfall.

Edited to add: Saw Christopher Hitchens speak on Sunday night and he said that if Robert Ludlum had written this it would be called "The Dunsinane Deforestation". LOLZ.

Still brilliant. There is a lot to discuss regarding fate vs. free will. Could have Macbeth have avoided the prophecy given to him by disregarding his wife and quelling his own ambition? Does the act of hearing a prophecy seal one's fate? ( )
  jonbrammer | Jul 1, 2023 |
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When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
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Classic Literature. Drama. Fiction. HTML:

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his best-known plays. Often referred to as an archetypal tale, it warns against lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Shakespeare based the play loosely on a King Macbeth of Scotland. The play is traditionally considered "cursed", and thus many actors refer to it as "The Scottish Play" to avoid naming it.

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Macbeth è uno dei picchi dell'immensa creatività di Shakespeare. Scozia, XI secolo. Istigato da apparizioni soprannaturali e da una moglie ambiziosa, il barone Macbeth uccide re Duncan e s'invischia in una catena di delitti fino a prendere coscienza della vanità del mondo e della diabolica insidiosità delle profezie. Con l'aiuto delle truppe inglesi, la nobiltà lealista, guidata da Macduff, uccide l'usurpatore ristabilendo l'ordine. Shakespeare condensa diciassette anni di storia in un tempo apparente di poche settimane, porta in scena coscienze logorate dal Male, dà vita a personaggi immortali, come quello di Lady Macbeth, miscela di cupidigia, odio, follia. Da questa tragedia Verdi trasse un'opera memorabile e il cinema, grazie a Welles (1948), Kurosawa (1957), Polanski (1971), e ora Branagh (2013) e Justin Kurzel (2015), non ha mai smesso di esplorarne le potenzialità poetiche.
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I've been fond of this take on the consequences of messing with fate. Guilt drives Macbeth insane and seeing that in hallucinations is very interesting. Both of them show their guilt by becoming the opposite of who they were in the beginning.
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If he had waited,
The crown might have come to him,
Legitimately.
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