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1) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. This is the best of the Macbeth audio recordings that I´ve ever heard. Since I teach this play twice a year for the past twenty years, I´ve had the opportunity to pretty much hear them all, and I don´t think any of the others compare. In fact, all of the Caedmon audio Shakespeare series are excellent, even the more obscure plays. (You should listen to the Caedmon recording of Coriolanus with Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy and Michael Hordern!) If you´re looking for an audio Macbeth, this is the one.¤ 2) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. The Cd begins with the powerful witches scene-great music-definitely causing my students to sit-up and listen.¤ 3) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. The Dover Thrift Edition is a good choice for a reading text because it presents the entire, unabridged play, and has enough notes to be helpful to inexperienced readers without overwhelming or distracting them. The omition of a scholarly apparatus makes the Dover Edition more flexible and keeps it from becoming outdated.¤ 4) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. This product was great. It helped my students and I read and comprehend Macbeth so much better than us trying to read it and comprehend it. The actors voices are great! I think they do a great job being the characters on tape!¤ 5) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a dramatist whose genius is universally acknowledged, with a reputation as an actor, playwright and poet. He lived in an age of vast and significant changes characterised by the rise of the middle class and of a centralised government and the disappearance of medieval religious beliefs. England was transforming into a modern state. This was a time when self-realisation, self-respect and boldness of thought and action was idealised. Shakespeare´s drama merely reflected the dramatic times of the age.
Shakespeare´s genius can be reflected by the variety of his productions, where out of the 36 plays he has left, no two are alike and he managed to articulate the diverse subjects with exceptional expertise, handling both tragedies and comedies with ease.
Macbeth is a tragedy, intended to teach us a lesson about the human condition. The play is a tragedy about a wealthy Scottish noble called Macbeth who kills his king to gain the throne. During Shakespeare´s time, this was a terrible thing to do, and from then on, Macbeth was doomed to die a tragic death.
The play starts with three witches confronting the great Scottish general Macbeth on his victorious return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The witches predict that he will one day become king. They also predict that another General called Banquo will be the father of kings, although he will not ascend the throne himself. The Scottish king, Duncan, decides that he will confer the title of the traitorous Cawdor on the heroic Macbeth. Macbeth, with the urging of his evil and ambitious wife murder King Duncan and ascends to the throne of Scotland.
Macbeth and his evil wife begin to do strange things, partly because of what they have done and also because they never get a whole night´s sleep. Macbeth thinks he has to kill two of his former friends because he believes that they threaten his new throne. His efforts fail and he is eventually killed.
¤ 6) Paperback Book The Tragedy of Macbeth (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA. A play of darkness originally conceived for daylight performance at the Globe, Macbeth is a tour de force of theatrical illusion from the supernatural to mere delusion. In this fully annotated edition, Brooke investigates the great appeal of the play´s use of illusion, relating its changing theatrical fortunes to changes within society and in theatrical conditions. Offering a fresh reconsideration of textual problems, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play within aesthetic history.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 9-Jan-2009, 01928341779780192834171, 260-550-770-990-290-370-8 
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