Macbeth, 9780230576209
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Ambition, desire, and guilt consume: A definitive Macbeth for today.

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    22 April 2009

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Summary

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s great drama of ambition, desire and guilt.

With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents:

  • A historical overview of Macbeth in performance
  • A detailed look at specific productions
  • Recommendations for film versions

Included in this edition are three interviews with leading directors – Rupert Goold, Gregory Doran and Tr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780230576209
ISBN-10:0230576206
Author:Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate, Prof. Eric Rasmussen
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:The RSC Shakespeare
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:22 April 2009
Weight:230g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
Series:The RSC Shakespeare
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About The Author

Eric Rasmussen

SIR JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador). In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen ‘for services to Higher Education’.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World’s Classics series. He has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

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