Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions

William Shakespeare

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'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt that a copy from this series will be in my hand.' ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

Each edition offers:
-Facing-page notes
-Short, clear definitions of words
-Easily accessible information about key textual variants
-Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words
-An easy to read layout
-Space to write notes
-A short introduction to the play

Book Details

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Publish Date: Jul 11st, 2019
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
EAN: 9781350046788
Categories: • Shakespeare• Acting & Auditioning

About the Author

Shakespeare, William: - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

Dobson, Michael: - Michael Dobson is an award-winning game designer and co-author of Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front. He served as a member of the team that built the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Brokaw, Katherine Steele: - Katherine Brokaw is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Merced, USA and co-founder of Shakespeare in Yosemite. She has taught, written about, adapted, and acted in Shakespeare's plays in a number of venues across the USA and Europe

Rokison-Woodall, Abigail: - Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Theatre, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK and was formerly a professional actor.

Beale, Simon Russell: - Sir Simon Russell Beale is the leading Shakespearean actor of his generation, having played King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Malvolio, Timon of Athens, Benedick, Falstaff, Prospero and Richard II.

Praise for this book

"This edition of the Scottish play includes accessible and informative introductory chapters which serve as helpful cross-references for actors, teachers and students when translating from page to stage. The series editor has taken great care to emphasise creative opportunities actors are afforded via variations in punctuation, lineation and metre." --National Drama