A Guide to Reading Shakespeare's Macbeth

Whereas other guides dictate the meanings and significances of Shakespeare’s scenes and translate his rich language into more ordinary speech, A Guide to Reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth gives readers the means to understand the play for themselves. Drawing on her extensive experience as a scholar and teacher of Shakespeare’s drama, Maria Fahey provides, for each scene of the play, a sequence of carefully designed questions that help readers ponder and grasp the play’s individual lines and larger ideas. An introduction to meter provides the essentials needed to hear how Shakespeare composes for witches and kings, and an introduction to figurative language offers techniques with which to comprehend Shakespeare’s famously complex and rewarding language. A Guide to Reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth gives readers a method—and the confidence—to arrive at their own interpretations of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.