Macbeth: Original Text: The Graphic Novel (British English)

the book comes from engliand, faster than i thought. the book is book and it's good for class uses and life reading.

In my Amazon parcel this week the books have all been brilliant. This is one of the best. (Alongside my Dean Koontz. Yes, I know, such variety!!)Worth the wait, this book and it's companion (see my other review) have changed the way I see Shakespeare. I was reading the plays because I had to. I'm reading these books out of choice. Colour, action, powerful imaging meet and match The Bards immortal words. Which are all there. Yes, all of them.Rather cool pages about the real Macbeth told me things I didn't know. I like this. A lot.

Schön gemacht, das Stück ist originalgetreu umgesetzt und wird doch ganz neu erlebt. Die Bilder helfen sehr, mit dem Shakespeare-English klar zu kommen. Für Schulklassen und Einsteiger optimal.

I was looking for Macbeth in comic book form when I stumbled upon this publication. It is a complete delight. Every page engaged the reader. The graphics are well placed with the text bubble explanations pertinent to the page of events. What a fabulous copy to own!

Estos comics son una pasada. La adaptación ( en inglés) es bastante buena. Algo feísta y gore en el dibujo, pero Macbeth es así.

A great addition for studying Macbeth. The original text with lively comic book illustrations. We found having a modern translation handy (you can find them on the internet easily), allowed us to dramatically read each character then find out what on earth they just said!! Another dimension to bring Shakespeare alive.

These graphic versions of Shakespeare's plays are brilliant at bringing the text alive and making it far less forbidding for the average GCSE English pupil! The original text and the modern English versions share the same images and so can be directly compared, page for page, if pupils are struggling to understand the original. The artwork is uniformly excellent. Additionally, there are also some well written background articles on the globe, the background to Macbeth itself with a 'potted' history of the appropriate period of Scotland. Together, with a full Dramatis Personae, all of this makes for a very fulfilling reading experience for younger readers who have an opportunity to experience the full richness of Shakespeare's English and the contribution he made to the development of our language.