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Cliffs Complete Shakespeare's Macbeth 8572-X_3 fm 11/29/01 4:19 PM Page i CLIFFSCOMPLETE Shakespeare’s Macbeth Edited by Sidney Lamb Associate Professor of English Sir George Williams University, Montreal Complete Text + Commentary + Glossary Commentary by Christopher L. Morrow Best-Selling Books • Digital Downloads • e-Books • Answer Networks • e-Newsletters • Branded Web Sites • e-Learning New York, NY • Cleveland, OH • Indianapolis, IN 8572-X FM.F 4/17/00 8:11 AM Page ii 8572-X FM.F 4/17/00 8:11 AM Page iii CLIFFSCOMPLETE Shakespeare’s Macbeth 8572-X_3 fm 11/29/01 4:19 PM Page iv About the Author Publisher’s Acknowledgments Christopher L. Morrow is currently a doctoral student at Texas A&M Uni- Editorial versity where he is working on a dissertation in Early Modern drama. Mor- Project Editor: Joan Friedman row received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming in 1996 Acquisitions Editor: Gregory W. Tubach and his Master of Arts from Texas A&M University in 1998. 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Hungry Minds, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. is a trademark of Hungry Minds, Inc. 8572-X FM.F 4/17/00 8:11 AM Page v CLIFFSCOMPLETE Shakespeare’s Macbeth CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Introduction . 1 Act I. 29 Act II . 63 Act III . 89 Act IV . 119 Act V . 149 CliffsComplete Review . 177 CliffsComplete Resource Center . 186 CliffsComplete Reading Group Discussion Guide. 190 Index. 193 8572-X FM.F 4/17/00 8:11 AM Page vi CLIFFSCOMPLETE Shakespeare’s Macbeth TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Macbeth . 1 Introduction to William Shakespeare. 1 Introduction to Early Modern England . 7 Introduction to Macbeth. 17 Character Map . 26 Act I Scene 1 A desert heath. 29 Scene 2 A camp near Forres. 31 Scene 3 A heath. 35 Scene 4 Forres. A room in the palace. 43 Scene 5 Inverness. Macbeth’s castle. 46 Scene 6 The same. Before the castle. 51 Scene 7 The same. A room in the castle. 53 Act II Scene 1 Inverness. Court within the castle. 63 Scene 2 The same. 68 Scene 3 The same. 73 Scene 4 The same. Without the castle. 81 Act III Scene 1 Forres. A room in the palace. 89 Scene 2 The same. Another room in the palace. 96 Scene 3 The same. A park with a road leading to the palace. 100 Scene 4 The same. A room of state in the palace. 102 Scene 5 A heath. 110 Scene 6 Forres. A room in the palace. 112 viii CliffsComplete Macbeth Act IV Scene 1 A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. 119 Scene 2 Fife. Macduff’s castle. 128 Scene 3 England. Before the king’s palace. 133 Act V Scene 1 Dunsinane. A room in the castle. 149 Scene 2 The country near Dunsinane. 154 Scene 3 Dunsinane. A room in the castle. 156 Scene 4 Country near Birnam Wood. 160 Scene 5 Dunsinane. Within the castle. 162 Scene 6 The same. A plain before the castle. 165 Scene 7 The same. Another part of the plain. 167 Scene 8 The same. Another part of the plain. 170 CliffsComplete Review . 177 CliffsComplete Resource Center. 186 CliffsComplete Reading Group Discussion Guide . 190 Index. 193 Shakespeare’s MACBETH INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM Anti-Stratfordians — modern scholars who SHAKESPEARE question the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays — have used this lack of information to argue that William Shakespeare, or the “Bard” as people fondly William Shakespeare either never existed or, if he did call him, permeates almost all aspects of our society. exist, did not write any of the plays we attribute to He can be found in our classrooms, on our televisions, him. They believe that another historical figure, such in our theatres, and in our cinemas. Speaking to us as Francis Bacon or Queen Elizabeth I, used the through his plays, Shakespeare comments on his life name as a cover. Whether or not a man named and culture, as well as our own. Actors still regularly William Shakespeare ever actually existed is ulti- perform his plays on the modern stage and screen. The mately secondary to the recognition that the group 1990s, for example, saw the release of cinematic ver- of plays bound together by that name does exist and sions of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, A Mid- continues to educate, enlighten, and entertain us. summer Night’s Dream, and many more of his works. In addition to the popularity of Shakespeare’s plays as he wrote them, other writers have modern- ized his works to attract new audiences. For example, West Side Story places Romeo and Juliet in New York City, and A Thousand Acres sets King Lear in Iowa corn country. Beyond adaptations and productions, his life and works have captured our cultural imagination. The twentieth century witnessed the production of a play and film about two minor characters from Shake- speare’s Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and a fictional movie about Shakespeare’s early life and poetic inspiration in Shakespeare in Love.
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