William Shakespeare

Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater.

Macbeth

Macbeth (No Fear)

How painfully beautiful a way to speak of someone who has passed. (Act 5, scene 8).

Lily Cooper

“Your cause of sorrow Must not be measured by his worth, for then It hath no end”.

Carol Rutter

karissa 

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers. Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.

rhea ⸆⸉

What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky 

Martha Thompson

"the grief that does not speak, whispers the overfraught heart and bids it break"

Reading this play has given me even more urge than I had before to see it performed. I wish I could have studied Macbeth at school as opposed to Romeo and Juliet! A masterpiece that I cannot wait to teach.

Sean Wilson

Vicky  Nuñez 

Macbeth is basically Walter White. Without the drug making. He's someone who starts as a normal person but something(in Macbeth's case is greed) makes him change completely. 
I loved Lady Macbeth's character. By the end of the book she had reversed roles with her husband. He had become the ruthless one and she was stuck by guilt of the acts she had helped him commit. 
I also loved the witches how they represent the devil and temptation. How with just a few words they managed to transform Macbeth. 
It is a story of greed and how it can alter a person's personality. Not my favorite play by Shakespeare, but it should definitely be read.

maddie

jing 🐇

Campos

doxi 

Makbet

pussaydestroyer

I like the Scottish setting, and how the theme of guilt and Macbeth’s loss of sanity is portrayed. Lady Macbeth was a really interesting character. 

Wiktoria

cyndi petronel

Brooklyn Montri

had to read it for school, was absolutely terrible, but if i read it on my own probably wouldn’t be as bad

Maite Alarcon Leon

It may be too cliché to say "I love Shakespeare" but I did so love Macbeth.

Jacob Salyer

boy, did big ol’ shakespeare d e l i v e r !!

matylda<3

King Duncan’s closest generals, Macbeth and Banquo, have just defeated two invading armies and the Irish rebel Macdonwald. Out across the misty moor, they encounter three witches who reveal to Macbeth a powerful prophecy: “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” They not only claim that Macbeth will eventually become King of Scotland, but that Banquo will father a line of Scottish kings—though ominously, Banquo will never be king himself. This shocking tragedy—a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake—is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces. This Standard Ebooks production is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright’s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

stef

The tragedy of Macbeth

had to read this for school and thought it was very compelling story and interesting to see how shakespeare writes characters that are so complex. 

darby

Even thought I had to read it for GCSEs it was amazing 

Keira tanya

Andrew Matthews

Out, damned spot! A brilliant retelling of this classic tale of witches, murder and madness. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Evil in Macbeth.

I loved the pictures in the book, and how it's so simple and easy to read.

Hana 

Maria Elkoro-Iribe

** spoiler alert **
           cómo es posible que teniendo un plot twist tan chulo como lo de la cesárea lo haya ejecutado tan mal

Favourite character was Lady Macbeth. As for Macbeth something about his change in personality did not hit right. All the 3.5 stars are for Lady Macbeth!

Vedha Chelot

Stella 

lady macbeth slayed - minus points for killing her off stage

Macbeth

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