Macbeth (The Pelican Shakespeare) - Softcover

William Shakespeare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143128566 ISBN 13: 9780143128564

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

THE LEGENDARY BARD IN A LEGENDARY SERIES

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in dazzling new covers to excite Shakespearians of all ages.

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the twentieth century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.

These easy-to-read editions incorporate over 30 years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals for many years to come.

This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel.

About this title

Review:

"Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks."
--Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

"I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students."
--Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

About the Author:

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has edited Ben Johnson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, and many other classics. His books include Imagining Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Authentic Shakespeare (Routledge, 2011), Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and The Illusion of Power (University of California Press, 1992). A. R. Braunmuller is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143128566
• ISBN 13: 9780143128564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: A. R. Braunmuller, Stephen Orgel