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A full-color graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, retold in accessible modern English for easier reading, teaching, and discussion.

Witches, murder, ghosts, and madness make Macbeth one of Shakespeare’s most gripping tragedies — and a natural fit for the graphic novel format. This Plain Text edition presents the story in accessible modern English alongside full-color sequential artwork, helping readers follow the action, characters, and dramatic tension of the play.

As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are drawn deeper into ambition, betrayal, guilt, and violence, the visual format supports understanding while the plain text makes the story more approachable for students, independent readers, and anyone encountering the play for the first time.

Additional features include an illustrated cast of characters, background information on Shakespeare, and historical context on the real Macbeth.

Jon Haward was a British comic artist born in 1965 in Norwich, Norfolk, UK. He illustrated a great many well-known characters including Judge Dredd in 2000AD and The Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel. For Classical Comics he created characters and artwork for Macbeth and The Tempest and was art director for Frankenstein.

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor whose works are among the most widely read, performed, studied, and adapted in the world. His plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Henry V, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. More than four centuries after his death, Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies, histories, and sonnets remain central to literature and theater classrooms around the world.

John McDonald is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has adapted Shakespeare titles for the Classical Comics graphic novel series. He is married, with two sons and lives in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK.

Jon Haward was a British comic artist born in 1965 in Norwich, Norfolk, UK. He illustrated a great many well-known characters including Judge Dredd in 2000AD and The Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel. For Classical Comics he created characters and artwork for Macbeth and The Tempest and was art director for Frankenstein.

Nigel Dobbyn was a British comic artist who colored and lettered both Macbeth and The Tempest for Classical Comics. He also wrote and illustrated “Billy The Cat" for The Beano and produced work for 2000AD and Sonic The Comic amongst other titles.

Gary Erskine is a Scottish comic book artist who inked both Macbeth and The Tempest for Classical Comics. Previously he worked for Marvel and DC Comics on Captain America and Batman titles and has also contributed to licenses including Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who.

Joe Sutliff Sanders is a prominent children's literature scholar and an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is a former junior high school English teacher in Japan and he edited the American English text for four of Classical Comics’ US adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays as well as many classic texts in the series.

Clive Bryant is the founder of Classical Comics and has served as Editor-in-Chief for the series.