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I never thought anybody would mooch my copy of Macbeth. It's one of a billion copies floating around out there. (Thank you, condition notes, I guess.) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz can be usefully paired with Macbeth;
Lord of the Flies is illuminated by Euripides' The Bacchae;
C. S. Lewis's marvellous Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche;
also, Brokeback Mountain pairs nicely with Alice Munro ... ... essay about the joys of playing Oregon Trail. This book also helped get me out of a reading slump so added props!
13. Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Yes another play by William Shakespeare. This one is my favorite Tragedy so similar comments to #11. Notes, essays, read 'em, etc.
14 ... ... My Heart at Wounded Knee
48.A Tale of Two Cities The touchstone worked when I spelled Tale.. Tail. LOL
55.Hamlet
63.MacBeth
67.Sense and Sensibility
71.Bel Canto
74.Beloved
78.A Clockwork Orange
79.American Gods
80.The Russian Debutante's Handbook
83.Persuasion
88.P ... ... from "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
A Catskill eagle comes from Moby Dick
All Our Yesterdays is Shakespeare--Macbeth 15) Macbeth by Shakespeare. Perfectly constructed, full of wonderful ambiguity and supernatural imagery, with a strong moral core about the dangers of ambition and following one's impulses. Deep and beautiful as a tragedy can be. ... sey
12. The Theban Plays
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Anna Karenina
15, War and Peace
16. A Wrinkle in Time
17. Macbeth
18. The Aeneid
19. The Republic
20. The Origin of Species
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
22. Les Misérables
23. The Oresteia
24. ...
Pratchett's Lords and Ladies gloriously mixes up Hamlet and Macbeth
I don't know if they're "pop" enough, but you could look at:
David Lodge's Nice work and Mrs Gaskell's North and South; also Author, author and Henry James (even Small world and Spenser, if you want to get fancy) ... ... three by J. K. Rowling followed by two by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The rest of the top 10:
6. William Shakespeare's Macbeth
7. Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha
8. Jane Austen's Emma
9. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
10. Umberto Eco's The Na ... ... Ukraine
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
United Kingdom
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Crispin: At the Edge of the World - Avi
Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
The Alchemist's Daughter - Ka ... ... as the list of most popular non-fiction books is independent of any user.
* Running to a bookshop now to buy a copy of MacBeth, which now ranks second in the list of most-popular non-fiction books. ... the subject headings, too, I notice. A while back I posted about some of the weird, nonsensical subject headings for Macbeth, that play by some English guy by the name of Shakespeare. Some of the headings included somebody else's name (I forget who now) -- for which said play was ... ... M. ed. Old English Literature: Critical Essays, 2002.
O’Keeffe, Old English Shorter Poems, 1994.
O’Keeffe, ed. Reading Old English Texts, 1997
Tolkein, J. R. R. “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” PBA 22 (1936): 245-95 and in many anthologies)
Middle English (21 books)
A ... WarDay is one I've hoped for since I read the book back in the 80s. A very well cast, very well directed version of Macbeth. There are versions out there, but none I've felt did the work justice.
I second or third The Eyre Affair. ... high school they let me bring down the the books stored at the top of the attic stairs. So I read Of Human Bondage, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and a number of other, more forgettable adult books. By this time I was also reading every science book I could get my hands on as well ... ... Sisters just didn't have the spark quality I thought it would. It wasn't a bad book - it was very cleverly written (think Macbeth meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and funny. Pratchett is a hoot when he's on. I just found this book hard to read. It was extremely slow in the ... ... could you send me some of your snow?
I also need to start pre-production work for All's Well That Ends Well and Macbeth. Hmmmm, the touchstone for All's Well isn't working. Must not be LT's favorite Shakes play either. ... dream, the tempest, the taming of the shrew, twelth night and titus andronicus. I know I've read twelth night and Macbeth. I know I've read others, but I can't remember which.
I was in the tempest as well as choreographing for it. *bump*
Funny that the "normal" Macbeth still has D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668 still listed as a subject. ... reverse problem, actually: too many subject headings, some of which don't apply. I've seen it with, among other books, Macbeth. On the details page, it includes subject headings, such as antimuzak in Classical Music : Today on Radio 3 (dec 9, 2007, 3:21am) ... many shades, light and dark. Shakespeare is the starting point and the programme includes readings from 'The Tempest', 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Ariel's Songs, or 'spells', punctuate the programme and are accompanied by the song settings of Locke, Purcell and Tipp ... ... many shades, light and dark. Shakespeare is the starting point and the programme includes readings from 'The Tempest', 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Ariel's Songs, or 'spells', punctuate the programme and are accompanied by the song settings of Locke, Purcell and Tipp ... My copy of Shakespeare's Macbeth has some strange subject headings. Things like:
* Cartoons and comics
* foggidawn in The Green Dragon : High school curriculum (nov 26, 2007, 10:10pm) ...
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
The ... ... Pride and Prejudice, The Poisonwood Bible, The Things We Carried, Stones from the River (which I didn't like), Macbeth and Hamlet, and I wrote one paper on The Age of Innocence (my other favorite book ever) and one on Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.
Other years we read A Tale ... ... through the first half. The second half, I regretted not going to the toilet. This play went on and on and on.
Woyzeck
Macbeth - my book at more annotations and paraphrasing and bad translations than actual text. This annoyed me. And the translation of "whore" was something including ... ... are The Guardians by John Christopher (touchstones rebelling) which I was deeply unimpressed by; Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Animal Farm, Far From the Madding Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls, To Kill a Mockingbird, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Othello (which was ... ... Sea
The Great Gatsby
Winesburg Ohio
Cannery Row
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
Henry V
Twelfth Night
Othello
The Armada
The Elizabethan World Picture
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories
A Da ... ... Mockingbird
8) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
9) Jane Eyre
10) A Light in the Attic
Runners-up:
Macbeth
Outlander
The Red Tent
The Stand
The Swiss Family Robinson
Harry Potter series
edited to finish adding touchstones and then to add Harry Potter (s ... ... unconvincing. It had some truly hilarious moments, but overall I think not one of her better works.
24 and 25. Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare
My husband brought his pocket Shakespeare along on the trip, so I thought I'd take the chance to brush up a bit. I hadn't ... ... Szell from Marathon Man by William Goldman
Francis Begbie in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Voldemort
Annie Wilkes from Misery
Injun Joe from Tom Sawyer
Iago from Othello
Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
Norman Bates from ... #7 - my grade twelve English teacher dealt with Hamlet in the same way that yours did Macbeth. It took us three months to get through the play. It drove me crazy. We took so long to finish that I'd lost all connection to the story by the time we were done. It wasn't until I studied the play ... ... at the end of each line; had drilled us to perfection in doing so!
#5
One of my h.s. teachers assigned the parts in Macbeth. It took weeks and weeks to get through. If that had been my introduction to Shakespeare, or to the play, I might well have developed a lifelong hatred for the bard ... Right now we have a black cat named Merlin, but some of my past cats have been:
Graymalkin from Macbeth
Pooky (Garfield's teddy bear, because we didn't think he was fat enough for a Garfield)
Cupid
Thor
I desperately want to use a name from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats but I keep ... ... they don't have the imagination to understand, not people in University English departments. How do they explain works like Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Slaughterhouse-five, or any number of other perfectly "literary" works with fantasy or sci-fi elements? ... ... hmmm...
downstairs - 1225 (3 titles tied)
1 The last trail : a story of early days in the Ohio Valley (3)
2 Macbeth (3)
3 The first part of King Henry the Fourth (3)
bathroom - 221 - Uncle John's legendary lost bathroom readers suprise!
bedroom - 3637 - The ... ... by Laurie Halse Anderson
35. Shadowfires by Dean Kootnz
36. Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
37. Macbeth by William Shakespeare ... to read any of Shakespeare's comedies for class -- only tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth.
I guess the logic was that high school was a tough time, and teenagers are morbid, so they'll appreciate all of these miserable books. But it was really the ... ... a different colour for each different element I had to analyse.
On the other hand, when we were given a school copy of Macbeth to read, I was actually fine to see people had marked up those books, because it was clearly things a past teacher had mentioned to them as important, that my ... ... notations and underlining give me a sense of continuity with past readers. A few years ago I bought an old, old copy of Macbeth and was delighted to find that the previous owner, (one Harry Kahonovitch III - he evidently believed in writing his name in things), had already underlined many of ... ... entertain, but to teach, usually a mistake.
If all I ever read of Shakespeare was Romeo and Juliet at sixteen and Macbeth at seventeen taught by someone who didn't understand them any better than I did, I would never have read King Lear or The Tempest nor would I know that Shakespea ... I've never read 1984, so I couldn't comment.
I know very few people who didn't like Macbeth, but it's not a novel. It's kind of odd, actually; even my most ardently Shakespeare-hating friends think it's a pretty cool play. Hmm. ... this to titles taken from others' works. I'll start off with William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, from Macbeth ("tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"). ... let
Othello
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Tale of Two Cities
MacBeth
ugh..wish I could remember the rest.. :(
... about war was more dull than horrifying because I couldn't relate to it? When we studied Shakespeare, it Hamlet and Macbeth. The women in those are hardly role models. I had really good teachers, male and female, (even though l didn't appreciate them then), and these books are more ... ... teacher loved it, and every question on the Mid term had to do with it in some way. Nevermind the fact that we'd also read Macbeth and the The Odyssey by that point in the year. I took one look at that mid term and knew I was going to do poorly on it. Of course none of the questions about ... Responding to the original question:
Ten Books the World Shouldn't Be Without
Hamlet
Macbeth
Oyster Janette Turner Hospital
A volume containing Jackson's "The Lottery" and/or LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas"
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by R ... It's been awhile for me, but I remember reading Beowulf, Julius Caesar, A Tale of Two Cities, The Scarlett Letter, MacBeth, 1984, The War of the Worlds, Romeo and Juliet, Tom Sawyer, Jane Eyre, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Streetcar Named Desire and other Tenessee Wil ... My GCSE reading list (1986-88, when I was 14-16) included: Sons and Lovers, Fathers and Sons, Bliss, Macbeth, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Collected poems by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Lord of the Flies, Hard Times, ... Animal Farm was another school-book, along with Macbeth - but then I guess those two are probably quite common on the cirriculum?
Oh, Dorian Gray and Sons and Lovers, they were required reading during the summer before I started English at college, there were a few others, but honestly. ... ... As You Like It is a case in point. We had already studied The Merchant of Venice at O Grade level, then Macbeth at Higher, and I loved both of these, but for some reason I just couldn't get the multitude of characters in As You Like It organised enough in my head to figure ... ... - a symbol of disaster to come. Not a very 'deep' one, but just off the top of my head. The 'bloody babe' of prophecy in Macbeth, which echoes the children Macbeth has murdered and Lady Macbeth's chilling speech about dashing her suckling child's brains out. Of course, the Macbeths are ... ... picked a different curriculum than everyone else... while everyone else in my year was reading Hamlet, we were reading MacBeth. While everyone else was reading Crime and Punishment, we were reading The Invisible Man. So, not bad books at all, but not always what seems to be "standard" ... Don't misunderstand me: I love the texts I teach. However, one's enthusiasm can wane; KS3 English has meant five months of Macbeth every year for the last fifteen years. I studied it myself (memorising quotes for the O' Level exam) for two years at school. Can you see how even such a great play ... ... others I raved about in my teens.
I have to say it's not just children who are force-fed classics: if I have to teach Macbeth to one more group of 14 year olds I will have a complete head fit. Ditto Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the flies and Of mice and men. Sadly, teachers don't have a ... ... Have own ginger cat now.
Another good one is Men of Respect with John Turturro - a gangster film based on a book called Macbeth by someone called Shakespeare - I can honestly say I enjoy it more than the book, though I imagine that`ll be a controversial choice in the context of LT.
Two ... ... this very well and made me feel pity for the wizard and Alessan. Also made me think of high school english when we read MacBeth and discussed 'Does the ends justify the means?' And should a few have to suffer for the good of many? I still can't come up with an answer for those questions. C ... ... Two Cities
Frank Herbert Dune
Carl Sagan The Demon Haunted World
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany
Shakespeare Macbeth Julius Caesar
Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
Jennifer Michael Hecht Doubt
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Bram Stoker Dracula
Gary Zukav The Dancing Wu ... ... little brother started obessing over it, then I hated it again.
I totally agree that a great starter on Shakespeare is MacBeth, I'm so glad I didn't get started on Romeo and Juliet.
lorsomething
Yes, Shakespeare is hysterical! I recently saw a program on the Ovation channel about ... ... is far too simplistic for 8th graders who shoud be reading Huckelberry Finn. But we, back in the last century, read MacBeth in 8th grade and I thought that was a great intro to Shakespeare. Now they all read the combo-book West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. At least, they no ... ... hard to mangle onstage? What about favorites that are particularly hard to pull off onstage (the famous example here is Macbeth, which I in fact have only seen performed well once, out of perhaps 6 productions)?
Another favorite of recent years is Measure for Measure. The problematic ... I read light thickens when I was doing my final year exams because it goes into detail with the production of Macbeth and that was the play I was studying! I've read it again and enjoyed it.
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