Macbeth - (Annotated Shakespeare) Annotated by William Shakespeare (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"To be able to read <i>Macbeth</i> with the eye of one of our profession's top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well as the mind."--Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University</b> <p/> Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does <i>Macbeth. </i>A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. This extensively annotated edition makes <i>Macbeth</i> completely accessible to twenty-first century readers and provides a rich resource for students, teachers, and general readers. <p/> Burton Raffel's on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the reader's understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that <i>Macbeth</i>--his favorite of Shakespeare's high tragedies--is the playwright's most internalized drama. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The polymathic scholar and translator Burton Raffel not only elucidates baffling terms but offers guidance on the prosody and declamation of Shakespeare's lines, often to subtle effect, which will be useful to actors as well as readers.--Eric Ormsby, <i>New York Sun</i> <p/>Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006 <p/> <br>Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by <i>University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries</i> <p/> <br>Featured at ALA as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about" <p/> <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Burton Raffel</b> was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are <i>Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, </i>and<i> Yvain, </i>all published by Yale University Press. <b>Harold Bloom</b> was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, and was the author of many books, <i></i>including<i> The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, </i>and <i>Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?</i>
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