Macbeth: Full Play with Annotations and Key Quotations - eBook

by William Shakespeare, Alison Powell

 

Scholastic's completely annotated set texts are designed
to help students prepare for their closed book AQA GCSE English
Literature examinations
This full-colour ready-annotated edition of Shakespeare's well-known
tragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts
alike. It includes


The full play
Detailed annotations on each page
Definitions of tricky vocabulary
Organised lists of key quotations
 

The full text of the play is set on an easy-to-read cream background
with wide margins on every page providing helpful annotations
about the key information on that page. This takes the student
step-by-step through the play highlighting useful insights about
the characters and plot as well as addressing the main themes and
context. At the bottom of each page definitions are supplied to
aid the understanding of unusual or archaic language used within
the text.


At the back of the book students will find a helpful guide to
key quotations from the play. Each quotation will reference where
it appears in the play as a whole and identified with an at-a-glance
'key' symbol.





English Literature
GCSE 9-1
Set Text Macbeth by William
Shakespeare
Set Text - Complete Annotated

 
About the When three sinister witches tell
Macbeth that power and glory could be within his grasp, he murders
the king in a bid to ensure his future. But he soon sees the
error of his ways, for if you kill once, you will kill again -
and the dead will return to haunt you for your sins. War, power,
witchcraft, deadly deeds, relationships and risks are themes that
run through this enduring play.


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Kindle Edition

Expected publication March 12, 2026

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".