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Macbeth: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes (ePub eBook)

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Macbeth: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes (ePub eBook)

£8.99

ISBN:
9780241695074
Publication Date:
14 Mar 2024
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Imprint:
Puffin
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
eBook
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Macbeth: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes (ePub eBook)

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With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood'It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood'On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be king; but Banquo's sons will also be kings. When the witches' predictions start to come true, the ambitious Lady Macbeth vows to help her husband become King of Scotland and hold on to the throne - by any means necessary. But as the pursuit of power leads them down a dark and bloody path, the Macbeths soon begin to unravel.Macbeth is Shakespeare's famously blood-soaked tale of greed and prophecy so powerful that superstitions about the curse of 'The Scottish Play' continue to this day.Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare's unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It - With a foreword by Talia HibbertHamlet - With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-ÍyímídéA Midsummer Night's Dream - With a foreword by Becky AlbertalliMuch Ado About Nothing - With a foreword by Holly BourneRomeo and Juliet - With a foreword by Jennifer Niven

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