Oxford Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth
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About This Novel
Scottish general Macbeth learns from the three fateful sisters that he is about to become the new king. On the night when the old king Duncan stayed overnight, Macbeth was encouraged by his wife to kill Duncan with a knife. When the prophecy finally came true, Macbeth was backlashed by ambition and sin, became suspicious and insane, and was eventually beheaded by his rebellious subordinates. "Macbeth" is one of the works with the strongest dramatic conflict among Shakespeare's plays. It is the smallest in size, but has multiple climaxes and layered reversals, and is as complex as the protagonist Macbeth in Hamlet. The subtlety of this play lies in its exploration and exposure of the deepest parts of the human heart. In Macbeth's long monologue, we get a glimpse of the intertwining and confrontation between ambition and conscience, desire and cowardice, and good and evil in the individual soul. Many illusions wander around, adding to the romanticism. The introduction and annotations of this book are compiled by Professor Nicholas Brooke of the University of East Anglia. It analyzes this Shakespeare classic tragedy from novel perspectives such as diverse dramatic illusions, outstanding language effects, Baroque aesthetics of "Macbeth", and more than 400 years of performance history.
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