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**Firestone Books' accompanying Macbeth: Revision Guide for GCSE and Macbeth: 25 Key Quotations for GCSE are out now!**
This Annotation-Friendly edition has:
- Large spaces between lines for annotations
- Large outer margins
- Pages at the end of each chapter for note taking
- Arial font size 12 for ease of reading
- An introduction
- Author biography
- Glossary of literary terms
- Macbeth glossary
- A useful guide to successful annotating
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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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