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Macbeth - Young Monash University academics Kim Edwards and Erica Hateley, provide a detailed analysis of this text. The video includes: discussion about the main characters, setting, themes and plot, the structure of the play, how language and imagery is used, different kinds of language and its purpose, the nature of a tragedy and a tragic hero, as well as the supernatural elements of the play. Key scenes are acted out, and will assist students to understand and appreciate this popular play.

Macbeth: the tragic pair - This programme is an enormously valuable historical, literary and dramatic analysis of the essence of Macbeth showing how the significant parts of the drama tie together with scenes from the play. The hosts Rebecca Flynn and Gary Taylor introduce 'Macbeth: The Tragic Pair' using the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands to lift the veil covering the language, plot, themes, geographical and historical background to The Tragedy of Macbeth, first published in 1623.

Massolit - Macbeth lectures

Niccolo Machiavelli, Power, Ambition and Political Uncertainty

Virtue's Sacrifice: A Machiavellian Reading of Macbeth

Shakespeare in Conversation

Clickview Resources

Macbeth Short Scenes

Clickview Resources

Macbeth Appropriations - Fiction

Lady Macbeth's daughter by Klein, Lisa
Call Number: F KLEI
ISBN: 9780143203698
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Macbeth and Son by Jackie French
Call Number: F FREN
ISBN: 0207200343
Publication Date: 2006-09-29
A modern tale of truth and lies woven with a story from the past. Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. He is burdened by a guilty secret: Sam has helped him to cheat in an entrance exam for a prestigious school.Lulach lives in ninth-century Scotland with his mother and stepfather, Macbeth. Macbeth becomes a great king and restores peace to the land.Luke dreams about Lulach and Macbeth at night. He is also studying the play Macbeth at school and in Shakespeare's version, Macbeth is a villain who murders the rightful king.Why did Shakespeare lie about who Macbeth really was? When is it okay to lie and when should you tell the truth?Similarly to Hitler's Daughter, Macbeth and Son challenges the reader to consider the actions of people, both in the past and present, and from a seemingly simple storyline, Macbeth and Son arrives at the morally complex question of 'What is truth? And how important is it?'Ages 10-14
Mac/Beth by Michelle Ray
ISBN: 9781514776049
Publication Date: 2015-07-24
Author of Falling for Hamlet, inspiration for The Royals on E!, Michelle Ray has reimagined Shakespeare's Macbeth and set it in Hollywood. The story follows Beth DeAngelo and her boyfriend Garrett Mackenzie ("ship" named MacBeth), as they navigate their rise to fame and their own guilt after their friend Duncan King dies. Or was he murdered?
As I descended by Talley, Robin
Call Number: F TALL
ISBN: 9780008210113
Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school's ultimate power couple but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn't know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything, absolutely anything, to unseat Delilah for the scholarship. Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school.
Third Witch [eBook] by French, Jackie
Call Number: Wheelers ePLatform Collection
ISBN: 9781460701935
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil and there is a happy ending - for some.Following on from OPHELIA, QUEEN OF DENMARK and I AM JULIET, this is the third title in the series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays.'I didn't mean to do it'. Annie is not a witch, but when her mistress Lady Macbeth calls for a potion to 'stiffen Macbeth's sinews', Annie is caught up in plots that lead to murder, kingship and betrayal. Annie must also not only choose between Rab the Blacksmith and Murdoch, Thane of Greymouth, but discover where her loyalty lies.

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