Macbeth: Language and Writing

Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472500415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's complex dramatic language, and expanding your own critical vocabulary, as you respond to his plays. Key features include: an introduction considering when and how the play was written, addressing the language with which Shakespeare created his work, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal detailed examination and analysis of the individual text, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies discussion of performance history and the critical reception of the work a 'Writing matters' section in every chapter, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations. Written by world-class academics with both scholarly insight and outstanding teaching skills, each guide will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. At a climactic point in the play, Macbeth realises that the witches have deceived him through their ambiguous language: 'they palter with us in a double sense'. This book explores Shakespeare's own paltering in the play – the densely rich language of ambition, of blood, and of guilt that structures Macbeth.

Macbeth

Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781408166420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This guide offers a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writing skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's rich and complex dramatic language and the students' own critical language and how they can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. This volume on 'Macbeth' discusses the play in its Jacobean context and in relation to Shakespeare's other tragedies before looking closely at its language and poetry.

Macbeth: Side by Side

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 9781580495165
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version.

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: EDCON Publishing Group
ISBN: 1555763316
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Easy Reading Shakespeare! Introduce your students to the famous literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare. Easy-reading adaptations will ignite the interest of reluctant and enthusiastic readers. Each of these condensed works is arranged in a ten-chapter format with key words designed and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require students to recall specific details, sequence events, draw inferences, develop new story names, and choose the main idea. Improves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Grade 4 reading level.

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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Julius Caesar - Literary Touchstone

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1580495877
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones..."How do you choose between the life of your friend and the future of your homeland? In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus, "the noblest Roman of them all," has only his personal integrity to help him choose which is the greatest good and where he must place his allegiance. The wrong choice will result in certain personal and national devastation. With its stirring speeches and vivid images of men at both their noblest and most terrible, the play will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. To make Julius Caesar more accessible to the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition provides in-depth explanation, as well as historical background. Convenient sidebar notes and an extensive glossary help the reader navigate the complexities of the text and enjoy the beauty of Shakespeare's verse, the wisdom of his insights, and the impact of his drama.

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300106541
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Presents the complete text of Shakespeare's classic play about Macbeth, a man who kills the king in an attempt to seize the crown of Scotland for himself, and includes an essay by Harold Bloom, introduction, and information about the Shakespearean stage.

Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241252202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
'And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Through the Literary Glass

Author: Nilanko Mallik
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
This book is a compilation of articles written by academicians residing in India and abroad, on some major texts which are studied in the course of undergraduate syllabi of English studies. The articles are on: Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Jew of Malta, Look Back in Anger, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, The Lagoon, The Fly, The Ox, Shooting an Elephant and Araby. Although the book is meant for students of undergraduate levels, researchers would also be benefitted from some of the topics of the articles.

The Literary Language of Shakespeare

Author: S.S. Hussey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317896157
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Professor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, rhetoric and the soliloquy. For this new edition, the text has been revised throughout with, in particular, a completely new chapter providing detailed readings of selected plays, illustrating the ways particular aspects of language can be studied in practice.