Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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Author: William ShakespeareEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-27
ISBN: 0743482794
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Accessories:
- Henry VI Part 2 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
- The Tempest
Book Reviews of Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Book Review: Yale's may be the best edition of Macbeth
Summary: 5 Stars
Virtually all editions of Macbeth will have at least some annotations. Rummaging through five different editions, I preferred the Yale University Press version, edited by Burton Raffel, as having the most comprehensive and comprehensible notes, as well as an excellent introduction to Shakespeare's play. Raffel not only explains the meanings of obscure words, but also gives brief notes pertaining to relevant history, geography, stage directions, etc, that are rarely addressed as fully by other editors. In addition, Raffel frequently gives the proper way to stress the syllables in a line when reading it aloud, which can be extremely helpful. (However, in most places these stresses need to be very subtle, so that you don't sound like "taDUM taDUM taDUM".) And Yale's page layout is among the clearest that I've seen.
(To find this edition: at Avanced Search, enter ISBN 0300106548; or, enter Macbeth as title, and either Raffel as author or Yale as publisher.)
As a bonus, this edition includes at the back a long essay on the play by Harold Bloom. This is not an uninteresting commentary, but Bloom desperately needs a good editor. His essay is not only at least three times longer than it should be, but is startlingly repetitious. Yale would have been wise to have asked Bloom for a rewrite.
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