Macbeth: Deutsche Neuübersetzung (Shakespeare. Leicht. Verständlich. 2)

by William Shakespeare, Jürgen Beck (translator)

Macbeth soll angeblich 1606 zum ersten Mal aufgeführt worden sein. Das Stück dramatisiert die schädlichen physischen und psychologischen Auswirkungen des politischen Ehrgeizes auf diejenigen, die nach Macht streben. Von allen Stücken, die Shakespeare während der Regierungszeit Jakobs I. schrieb, spiegelt Macbeth am deutlichsten seine Beziehung zu dem Gönner von Shakespeares Schauspieltruppe, wider. Ein tapferer schottischer General namens Macbeth erhält von drei Hexen die Prophezeiung, dass er eines Tages König von Schottland werden wird. Von Ehrgeiz zerfressen und von seiner Frau zum Handeln angespornt, ermordet Macbeth König Duncan und nimmt den schottischen Thron für sich ein. Danach wird er von Schuldgefühlen und Paranoia geplagt. Er ist gezwungen, immer mehr Morde zu begehen, um sich vor Feindschaft und Misstrauen zu schützen, und wird bald zu einem tyrannischen Herrscher. Das Blutbad und der daraus resultierende Bürgerkrieg führen Macbeth und seine Lady schnell in die Gefilde des Wahnsinns und des Todes.

Die Reihe "Shakespeare. Leicht. Verständlich." besteht aus deutschen Neuübersetzungen, die das klassische Werk in eine neue Prosaform, die leicht lesbar und inhaltlich sofort zu begreifen ist, transponiert. Sie sind für sich ein Lesegenuss, dienen aber auch hervorragend zur Interpretation unverständlicher Passagen in den sehr alten Übersetzungen.

Dieses Buch enthält zusätzlich eine kritische Erklärung des Stückes, verfasst von Dr. Ludwig Herrig, einem bekannten deutschen Philologen.

143 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 16, 2023

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".