Macbeth (Classic Reprint): With an Introduction and Notes: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Shakespeare, William

 
9781330203088: Macbeth (Classic Reprint): With an Introduction and Notes: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Macbeth: With an Introduction and Notes

Of the fate of Lady Macbeth, apart from the lines of Shakespeare, history, tradition, and fable are silent.

The Scotch saw with indignation foreign mercenaries interfere in their domestic affairs, and the name of Mac beth long remained popular in Scotland, and men of great consequence held it an honour to bear it.

The Clarendon editors add The single point upon which historians agree is that the reign of Macbeth was one of remarkable prosperity and vigorous government.

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Excerpt from Macbeth: With an Introduction and Notes

Of the fate of Lady Macbeth, apart from the lines of Shakespeare, history, tradition, and fable are silent.

The Scotch saw with indignation foreign mercenaries interfere in their domestic affairs, and the name of Mac beth long remained popular in Scotland, and men of great consequence held it an honour to bear it.

The Clarendon editors add The single point upon which historians agree is that the reign of Macbeth was one of remarkable prosperity and vigorous government.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 17 of 20: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-Notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index

First printed in the folio of 1623. On the 8th of November, that year, it was registered at the Stationers' by Blount and Jaggard, as one of the plays "not formerly entered to other men."

The text of this drama has come down to us in a state far from satisfactory. Though not so badly printed as some other plays in the same volume, for instance, All's Well that Ends Well and Coriolainis, still it has a number of very troublesome passages. In several cases, the errors are of such a nature that we can hardly refer them to any other than a phonographic origin. On this point, the learned editors of the Clarendon edition observe as follows: Probably it was printed from a transcript of the authors manuscript, which was in great part not copied from the original, but written to dictation. This is confirmed by the fact that several of the most palpable blunders are blunders of the ear, and not of the eye.

The minute and searching criticism of our time has made out, almost, if not altogether, beyond question, that considerable portions of Macbeth were not written by Shakespeare. I have been very slow and reluctant to admit this conclusion; but the evidence, it seems to me, is not to be withstood. It is, moreover, highly probable, to say the least, that few of the scenes, perhaps none, have reached us altogether in the form they received from the Poets hand. But, as this matter is to be discussed under the heading Shakespeare and Middleton, and as the lines judged not to be Shakespeares are asterized in this edition, it need not be enlarged upon here.

The date of the composition has been variously argued and concluded. Until a recent period, there was nothing but internal evidence at hand for settling the date.

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