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| Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare) | 
 enlarge | Author: William Shakespeare
Creator: Rex Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $10.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 107685
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0521606861
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780521606868
ASIN: 0521606861
Publication Date: September 5, 2005
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Product Description
This new edition of Macbeth is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of Macbeth, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language.
Book Description
Modern editions of a popular and trusted series.
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The lust for illegitimate power September 5, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of Shakespeare's plays I have liked best so far (I still have several ones left to read), along with Hamlet, King Lear and Julius Caesar. It is the tragedy of ambition and delusion, and the fatal results of those two vices combined. It is also one of Shakespeare's plays in which the supernatural has a greater participation. Just as Hamlet is driven to revenge by a ghost -his father's- Macbeth is driven to desperate ambition for power by three witches who tell him he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland (way back in the Middle Ages). Though Macbeth is not a very resolute man and so has many doubts, his inescrupulous wife jumps in on the prophecy and pushes him all along. She must be one of the dreariest women to have appeared in fiction ever. You can imagine her truly as the mother in law from hell. Together, the Macbeths perpetrate a series of treasons and horrible murders, and even start up a war, all for the throne they will, of course, never enjoy. As always with Ol' Billy, the dialogues are incredibly strong and magnificent, full of passion and energy. The scene where the ghost of Banquo appears in the middle of a dinner is more than spooky, horrifying. This play is pure evil, violence, disaster and remorse, and the final transformation of Macbeth is necessarily too late, but worth contemplating.
great edition for the classroom November 17, 2007
wonderful, short dramatic exercises that illuminate the play and make it accessible and fun for students.
Great teaching tool. September 9, 2008
This is a great teaching tool for those of us who like to teach out of the box. It has everthing from think-share-pair to essay topics to projects. To quote directly from the book "This is Shakespeare's language, filled with imaginative possibilites. You will find on every left-hand page: a summary of the action, an explanation of unfamilar words, a choice of activites on Shakespeare's language, characters and stories." On the right-hand page is the play. I do not use everything because I do not have time :( But I would not be able to get the kids as actively engaged as I do without it.
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