Macbeth (Penguin Classics) -

William Shakespeare

Penguin Books

2015

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780141396316

Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by George Hunter with an introduction by Carol Rutter.

'By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes'

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Macbeth, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.

'Shakespeare - the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God'
Lawrence Olivier

Resenhas (15)

4 (Muito bom)

Leitura um pouco confusa, talvez devido à tradução. Apesar de ser uma obra inferior à Otelo e Hamlet, se torna mais envolvente na segunda metade da história. Vale a pena ler e refletir sobre a ambição humana.