Macbeth: Una traduzione italiana

by William Shakespeare, Autri (translator)

Entra nel mondo oscuro e traditore dell'ambizione, del potere e delle forze distruttive del destino nel capolavoro senza tempo di William Shakespeare, 'Macbeth'.

Ambientato sullo sfondo inquietante della Scozia medievale, 'Macbeth' segue la tragica discesa del suo personaggio principale, un valoroso guerriero il cui incontro con tre streghe profetiche accende un desiderio consumante di supremazia. Mentre i sussurri insidiosi dell'ambizione si fanno strada, Macbeth e sua ambiziosa moglie, Lady Macbeth, intraprendono un viaggio intriso di sangue di tradimento e omicidio per impadronirsi del trono.

Guidato da una fame implacabile di potere e tormentato da colpa e paranoia, Macbeth si ritrova intrappolato in una rete da lui stesso tessuta, dove ogni scelta lo porta sempre più verso l'oscurità e la disperazione. Con l'accumularsi dei corpi e il regno sull'orlo del caos, la presa di Macbeth sulla realtà si indebolisce e la sua sanità si disfa in un gelido crescendo di follia.

Un racconto senza tempo sulla moralità e sull'influenza corrottrice dell'ambizione sfrenata, 'Macbeth' continua a catturare il pubblico con il suo ricco linguaggio, personaggi complessi e temi inquietanti di colpa, destino e la natura distruttiva dell'ambizione sfrenata.

Vivi la travolgente tragedia di Shakespeare come mai prima d'ora in questa edizione definitiva di 'Macbeth', destinata ad appassionare i lettori per generazioni.

133 pages, Hardcover

Published May 23, 2024

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".