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Tragedia dell’ambizione e del potere, questo capolavoro shakespeariano, tra gli esiti più alti della letteratura drammatica di tutti i tempi, narra di una torbida e violenta ambizione che trasforma Macbeth, uomo di doti eccezionali, in un autentico criminale; di forze oscure e incontrollabili, da cui ci lasciamo dominare (incarnate nelle tre streghe) e di valori imprescindibili, che non si possono impunemente infrangere, pena la pazzia, il baratro in cui Macbeth scivola distruggendo con le sue mani ogni possibilità di salvezza. Insieme con lui si perde la sua complice, la moglie, quella Lady Macbeth che è una delle più tragiche e intense figure femminili di tutti i tempi. Rappresentata probabilmente nel 1606, Macbeth è opera di grandi passioni, grandi caratteri, grandi inquietudini e di perenne attualità. Ne ricordiamo le splendide versioni cinematografiche di O. Welles (1948), di A. Kurosawa (1957) e di R. Polanski (1971).
William Shakespeare
nacque a Stratford on Avon nel 1564. Nel 1592 era già conosciuto come autore di teatro e fra il 1594 e il 1595 vennero rappresentati almeno quattro suoi drammi. Fece parte dell’importante compagnia del Lord Ciambellano, che godette di ininterrotto favore a Corte prendendo sotto Giacomo i il nome di King’s Men. Morì a Stratford nel 1616. La Newton Compton ha pubblicato le opere di Shakespeare in volumi singoli e nel volume unico Tutto il teatro.
Edizione integrale con testo inglese a fronte
Tragedia dell’ambizione e del potere, questo capolavoro shakespeariano, tra gli esiti più alti della letteratura drammatica di tutti i tempi, narra di una torbida e violenta ambizione che trasforma Macbeth, uomo di doti eccezionali, in un autentico criminale; di forze oscure e incontrollabili, da cui ci lasciamo dominare (incarnate nelle tre streghe) e di valori imprescindibili, che non si possono impunemente infrangere, pena la pazzia, il baratro in cui Macbeth scivola distruggendo con le sue mani ogni possibilità di salvezza. Insieme con lui si perde la sua complice, la moglie, quella Lady Macbeth che è una delle più tragiche e intense figure femminili di tutti i tempi. Rappresentata probabilmente nel 1606, Macbeth è opera di grandi passioni, grandi caratteri, grandi inquietudini e di perenne attualità. Ne ricordiamo le splendide versioni cinematografiche di O. Welles (1948), di A. Kurosawa (1957) e di R. Polanski (1971).
William Shakespeare
nacque a Stratford on Avon nel 1564. Nel 1592 era già conosciuto come autore di teatro e fra il 1594 e il 1595 vennero rappresentati almeno quattro suoi drammi. Fece parte dell’importante compagnia del Lord Ciambellano, che godette di ininterrotto favore a Corte prendendo sotto Giacomo i il nome di King’s Men. Morì a Stratford nel 1616. La Newton Compton ha pubblicato le opere di Shakespeare in volumi singoli e nel volume unico Tutto il teatro.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
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- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5The moral to the story. "Lie with Dogs and you will wake up with fleas"
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5The best thing about Macbeth is that it would eventually lead to Kurosawa's adaption: Throne of Blood.
So much better than Bill's version. - Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5The great Scottish play. A few things for non-Scottish readers: - Thanes are similar to lords, a lot of the locations still exist as do regions of Scotland. The real Macbeth was totally different from Will Shakespeare version. And yes Alistair Maclean probably did use the line 'The Way to Dusty Death' as a book title.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5This Barnes & Noble edition is really helpful. Great notes and textual explanations. Highly recommend it if you're new (or rusty) to reading Shakespeare. Only $7.95.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5Well, seldom has an author taken a few lines out of Hollingshead, and a bare mention in The Anglo Saxon Chronicle and spun a classic play from them. This play is one of the core Shakespeare Great Plays. Read it, then read it again, see it on stage, on film, read it aloud with a group of friends, just live with it for the rest of your life. You'll feel better for doing so.
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5So...MacBeth.
Weird that I knew so very little about this particular play, considering it's one of those ones that comes up a lot.
And while it's suitably tragic, this one—and perhaps it was the players in this rendition, I don't know—this one didn't grab me. Lady MacBeth deserved to die, she was a foul, foul woman. But for me, I think it was the fact that this MacBeth guy, a major war hero, is so easily and stupidly thrown into this tragic self-fulfilling prophecy, and how he's easily and stupidly led into murder by his foul wife, and then he's stupid at the end.
Very tragic, and yet again, I'm struck by how many phrases are still heard today by a four hundred year old play ("Lay on MacDuff" and the whole "boil and bubble, toil and trouble" witches' chant stand out). But overall, not one of my favourites. - Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Classic that has influenced so many stories. Definite must read.
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5This was the first one I read. I was astounded by the beauty of his language.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5The moral to the story. "Lie with Dogs and you will wake up with fleas"
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5RSC production at the Barbican theatre, with Christopher Ecclestone as Macbeth. Possibly the best staging of the play I've seen with a superb central performance, bringing layers to the role that I hadn't noticed before.
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5LATW audio production of the Scottish play. All of the cast are adequate but none of actors really stand out (sadly not even James Marsters) - although my opinion may have been coloured by almost the entire cast using American accents. The sound effects used for scenes with the witches are excellent and add just the right tone of weirdness that these scenes require. Not a bad version of the play but not one I'd recommend as a way to experience the narrative for the first time.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5This full cast production of Macbeth was excellent. Joanne Whalley was particularly good as Lady Macbeth.
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
Last winter I heard a report on NPR about Stalin's dacha in Sochi. Such featured some curious design features including a bulletproof sofa with extended headrests that prevented his head being exposed from behind to an assassin. The curtains were also shorter in length from the top to prevent someone from hiding from behind them. As I drove I mused as to what sort of world-view would emerge from someone's sense of self and safety?
The Bard's tale chooses not to address the policy of Macbeth but rather allows him only time to address his version of destiny in such a spirited supernatural environment. Macbeth is a rushed affair. It lacks the splendid pacing of Hamlet. Apparently Fortune favors the breathless as the narrative steps are sprinted and obstacles leaped like some wonky Wuxia. Despite all the gore, there isn't a great deal of introspection or even calculation. Such is strange but not so much as some things one finds on the Heath.(postscript: I just watched the Patrick Stewart led PBS film version: it was simply an avalanche.) - Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5I found the audio version by L. A. Theatre Works entertaining. I would prefer to watch the play, but that's difficult to do when driving on the highway. This audio version kept me entertained. I've seen other versions of the play and prefer other voices for some of the roles, but once I had the characters sorted, I was able to follow along with this classic work which is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. (5 stars for the play; 3.5 for the performance)
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5I can't believe I hadn't read this sooner and hope to see a production of it one of these days. I must say I have a soft spot in my heart for the three weird sisters.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5I got in a massive reading slump as I was into the 3rd act of this wonderful and short tragedy, so it took me a bit more to finish the book. The last 2 acts are packed with action and emotions and the characters are iconic to say the least: Lady Macbeth, the epitome of the power-hungry, manipulative and seemingly emotionless woman, she's the victim of her own humanity, her husband Macbeth whose mortal enemies are his doubtfulness and his mania for control, proof that misunderstanding or underestimating something can be truly fatal. Macduff and his pain are masterfully crafted and we can appreciate his weakness when he's with Malcolm and doesn't hide his feelings of despair and his strength when he faces Macbeth, the cause of his grief. It wasn't the easiest or quickest read I have done, but most definitely worth it. The intro by Cedric Watts is a nice addition as well.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5This is one of my favorites! Macbeth's corruption, Lady Macbeth's savage ambition, the deliciously spooky menace of the witches... It's just such fun! And perfect late October reading (I could pretend that I fell behind in my “All Shakespeare in a Year” reading just so Macbeth would fall at the right time of year.)I've read this quite a few times before – my kids acted in an adapted version when they were small, in which “the Curse” was demonstrated when our Macbeth tripped and split his forehead on the edge of the cauldron, and my daughter was the cutest little witch ever – and, as with most great literature, the play just gets better with each reading. This time I supplemented my reading with Garry Wills's “Witches and Jesuits,” which, while perhaps a bit overstated in its claims, is interesting and pointed me to some aspects I'd previously missed, and also Marjorie Garber's wonderful chapter on the play in her “Shakespeare After All.” The Arkangel recording, with Hugh Ross and Harriet Walter (and David Tennant as the porter!) is marvelous, and, as a fun “extra” I watched the Shakespeare Retold version, in which Macbeth is a very ambitious head chef in a popular restaurant. Highly recommended.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5Dark and supernatural, Macbeth is one of my favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies. One of the biggest questions I always ask is, "Would the weird sisters' prophecies come to pass even if Macbeth hadn't gone all murder crazy?"Macbeth is a great cautionary tale of the dangers of ambition, especially when it comes to power. Shakespeare explores what lengths men will go to for power, especially when they believe it is owed them.Adding this copy to my Little Free Library in hopes that someone in the neighborhood can learn something from it, especially as certain phrases remind me of the current political climate and I know the way my neighbors tend to vote.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5MACBETH ranks with A Midsummer Night's Dream as my favorite Shakespeare.It deals with how we all face Evil, the consequences within and without.The opening lines, here and in Roman Polanski's indelible film, often stay with readers foreveras do so many other memorable words, fears, and actions.The only reason for not ranking it a Five Star-Plus book is MacDuff.Like his wife, I still can figure out no logical reason for leaving his wife and children behindwhile he flees to England. And why did he not tell his cousin to hide or bring them when the cousin stopped to see them?Ideas welcome.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5Opening with the prophecies of the three witches always caught my imagination. I love how the story relates to that throughout the play, and also how Macbeth is intrigued that he may indeed become king. It adds a great, dramatic effect. Beginning to end this is a brilliantly written play.
- Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle5/5I read Lady Macbeth's part at school.
That should tell you all that you need to know about me. - Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5Before reading the play my instinct was to say that the three witches symbolize the three fates. The number is the same and the three witches finish each other's sentences in the way that the fates are usually portrayed as doing. The fact that what the witches predict comes true, and comes true only because Macbeth acted on their prophecy (rather like how Trelawney's prophecy in Harry Potter came true only because Voldemort acted on it).
The biggest difference between the witches and the fates is that (in spite of how popular culture portrays them) in their original mythology the fates do not try to cause harm. They simply do their job creating people's destiny, and occasionally recite a prophecy, without any malicious intent. The witches on the other hand are deliberately trying to lead Macbeth to corrupt his soul. The way that they hint to him that he has good things coming, just enough to make him act to gain those things, even at the expense of others. Even at the expense of his own soul. Because of this I think that the Weird Sisters represent demons, and Hecate, who reprimands them not for the harm that they have done, but for not letting her in on their fun; 'How did you dare/To trade and traffic with Macbeth/In riddles and affairs of death;/And I, the mistress of your charms,/The close contriver of all harms,/Was never call'd to bear my part,/ Or show the glory of our art?'
It appears to me that the Weird Sisters may represent demons, with Hecate representing Satan. Another possibility could be that the witches represent the potential for evil in Macbeth, easily egged on by Lady Macbeth because it is already within his capacity to commit.
The witches apply to the themes of violence and fate. In violence as they spur Macbeth onto violence in his second meeting with them, summoning visions of bleeding heads and murdered babies. And fate as they cause Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Banquo to question whether the things they predicted would come to pass naturally, or if they will have to act to gain the prophecies.
Without the Weird Sisters the play would not have happened, unless something else took their place. They are responsible for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth resorting to violence, and all the chaos that ensues. They could have been replaced by Macbeth making a conscious decision to kill King Duncan to gain power, but that wouldn't have been as compelling.
Lady Macbeth pushed Macbeth to kill the king trusting on the words the witches enough to believe that Macbeth would become king, but not trusting enough to wait and see if he would become king without them taking action. Ultimately neither husband nor wife could live with the guilt.
(This review was originally a discussion post I wrote for an online Shakespeare class.) - Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5Audiobook. Strangely compelling. Narrated by Alan Cummings. A good part of the charm was the great Scottish reading. I have now downloaded his one man show of Macbeth. This is a very interesting project. Would probably be a .5 because of how interesting the project.
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Re-reading "Macbeth" to refresh my memory before going to see it on stage. Not even trying to assume I can write a review on this classic. But one thing jumped out at me this time: how it took almost no time at all for Macbeth to decide on his murderous deeds after the prophecy of the three witches. It seemed incredible to me how little he hesitated to fulfil that prophecy at the horrible cost. Even though he did have some guilty conscience that tormented him just before and after the king's murder, being urged by Lady Macbeth was all it took...The images are dark throughout, the choice of words is insanely striking. A very good Introduction to the play by Mark Van Doren.
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5Actually enjoyed this one, and I typically loathe reading Shakespeare. This and Hamlet are the only ones worth reading, in my opinion.
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5I cannot believe this is the first full work of Shakespeare's that I've ever read. What have I been doing all my life? The frequent, clever turns of phrase were marvelous. I lucked out with a good book edition choice. This series gives Rashi-like commentary, enabling me to understand the narrative and word choices with clarity. Julius Caesar is next. Meantime, I've got to find a Macbeth performance in my area. Interest piqued.
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Seems like a lot of build up to just suddenly end like that. Damn those witches and their doubletalk. Pro tip: mention this play as often at theatres as possible.
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5studied this play during 2nd level education. Certain lines still stick with me to this day. Amazing to think of its sheer impact, centuries into the future (and still going strong!).
- Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Re-read this classic in the Signature Shakespeare edition - beautiful presentation, and useful notes and explanations. Interesting to contrast the awful reputation of the Shakespearian Macbeth with the vastly different person that historians now document. I read a book on the real Macbeth a few years ago which claimed that he was the most unfairly maligned figure in history. But you read the play for Shakespeare, not historic accuracy, and this play is a ripper. Read March 2015
- Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5The ending is the best. That and what always stuck with me was the image of the floating dagger.
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