Macbeth, Macbeth

Book Description Written by two leading Shakespearean critics, this critical re-imagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth opens up vivid new insights into one of the most familiar plays in the literary canon. Product Description The tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins of Dunsinane, the Porter tries to keep his three young boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forget what she lost in war. Flitting between them, a tortured clairvoyant shakes with the knowledge of what's to come.An unprecedented collaboration between two leading Shakespeareans, Macbeth, Macbeth sparks a whole new world from the embers of Shakespeare's great tragedy. The crow makes wing to the rooky wood... Review "Macbeth, Macbeth is as close as one can come to a quantum physics literary criticism - a reading which supplements the explicit text of a classic with the dense network of its "superposed" states, unmentioned presuppositions and implications. It is an analysis totally faithful to the original and at the same time totally contemporary. A miracle, an instant classic." -Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia“Macbeth, Macbeth draws a new world out of the world Shakespeare presents to us and in doing so offers a distinctive way to reflect on the moral and emotional demands of the original play … It’s certainly thrilling to read and it’s clearly the creation of two powerful intellects.” - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 About the Author Ewan Fernie is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. Simon Palfrey is Professor of English Literature at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK.