GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide - Macbeth includes Online Edition & Quizzes: perfect for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP GCSE English Text Guides)

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The sample question on William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, explains how to set about constructing a good written answer to a typical exam question. The central characters, the Macbeths, have a strong influence over the lives of the other characters. A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following MACBETH Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down! The content and the copyright of the titles and other intellectual property rights of whatever nature are and shall remain the property of CGP or the property of any third parties that may have licensed software or content to CGP. We've also added Knowledge Organiser pages, which lay all the essentials out in one handy place, and online audio extracts, which let students hear key scenes performed, just as Shakespeare intended.

Please refer to this Agreement before adding more titles to your CGP Online Editions account (Your Account). You may use the Service and any titles for your own personal use, including but not limited to study, classroom teaching, lesson planning or in-school training. Their ruthless ambition quickly sours to paranoia, madness, and guilt, and the power they once craved becomes the couple’s downfall. This Macbeth Complete Play contains the full text of all five acts, with helpful annotations explaining all the tricky bits in plain English.Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth alone, showing his overactive imagination triggered by a guilty conscience. It includes scene overviews and a context section, so that students can keep track of the plot, characters and historical details. Macbeth is again having doubts about murdering Duncan and sees a vision of the intended murder weapon - a 'dagger of the mind'. The CGP range for Shakespeare also includes a matching Text Guide, which contains all the notes and practice you need to really master Macbeth!

Purchasing a CGP Online Edition title grants you access to the title for three years from the date of purchase. Indeed, superstition that the very title of this play is cursed has even gathered among theater people who fear uttering “Macbeth” will wreak havoc on any performance.

The Captain describes Macbeth's actions on the battlefield particularly when he seeks out and kills the traitor Macdonwald. Purchasing a CGP Online Edition title grants you access to the title and Online Extras for three years from the date of purchase. Although he is now a king, Macbeth cannot command his own emotions and feels irrevocably set on this course of action. You have read and understand this Agreement and agree that it constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between us with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. It is unclear whether they plant ideas in his mind or whether they simply highlight thoughts that he has already had.