Folger Shakespeare Library
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Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Newly rev. ed.
Physical Desc
xcii, 271 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
With facsimile of the t.-p. of the Elizabethan club copy of the second quarto, 1604."New edition revised by Tucker Brooke."The 1917 and 1933 editions were edited by Jack Randall Crawford.Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [177]-201) Includes index.
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English
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Presents Shakespeare's dark comedy about young lovers and a Jewish money lender who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a debt. Includes explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective essay, and an introduction to the play and the language of Shakespeare.
3) Macbeth
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English
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One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first skeptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder. This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those...