About
Macbeth Synopsis
Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas; Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; IGCSE Literature in English
First teaching: September 2015; September 2018
Next exam: June 2025
This edition of Macbeth is perfect for GCSE-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.
- Affordable high quality complete play for Macbeth, ideal for GCSE 9-1 and IGCSE
- Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary
- Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretations
- Recall plot summaries at the beginning of each scene
- Support GCSE revision and essay writing with theme and character indexes
- Help students with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare's life and times
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008363604 |
| Publication date: |
2nd September 2019 |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: |
Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
240 pages |
| Series: |
Collins Classroom Classics |
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Press Reviews
William Shakespeare Press Reviews
This is a splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable. -- Neil Rhodes, University of St. Andrews, UK - Around the Globe
A much needed third series edition of Macbeth, which provides the reader with a breath of fresh scholarship after over 30 years. - Jarrod DePrado, Sacred Heart University, USA
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.
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