The definitive scholars resource on Shakespeares most popular tragedy. Professor Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre and Professor Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Institute offer on-screen commentary. The CD-ROM includes these features: a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronized with dramatizations of key scenes and speeches; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their roles; literary criticism of the text; scholarly essays featuring modern perspectives on Macbeth (Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, structuralist); excerpts from A. C. Bradleys definitive lecture series, Shakespearean Tragedy; extracts from Holinsheds Chronicles; a facsimile of the First Folio edition of the text; a clickable word glossary with accurate modern definitions of words no longer in common use; a bibliography of critical works; a history of Macbeth in performance; and Internet links to Web sites devoted to Shakespearean scholarship. The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.
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