Book cover for Macbeth The Gothic Novel: Bard409 Shakespeare Retold by William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë and Richard S. Pinner

Macbeth The Gothic Novel

Bard409 Shakespeare Retold

2025 Released
274 Pages
4-6 Hours
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Hungry Wolf PressISBN 9781917595209
In the storm-lashed highlands of medieval Scotland, where fate speaks in riddles and loyalty bleeds into the soil, a prophecy takes root in the heart of a warrior. Macbeth, battle-scarred and restless, returns home to find his destiny rewritten by whispers. At his side, Lady Macbeth, fierce and unrelenting, hungers for power as much as he does. But ambition exacts a price. As the castle walls close in and shadows grow long, blood is spilled, ghosts awaken, and love twists into madness.

This is not Shakespeare's play.
This is Macbeth retold as a gothic novel-written in a haunting prose style inspired by Emily Brontë. A literary adaptation by Richard Pinner, professor of linguistics and digital communication, it reimagines the Bard's tragedy as a tale of doomed passion, psychological torment, and poetic reckoning.

Richard S. Pinner

Richard S. Pinner (PhD, University of Warwick) works for the Department of English Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo (Japan). He is interested in the areas of authenticity and motivation in ELT. He recently co-edited a book with Richard J. Sampson called Complexity Perspectives on Researching Language Learner and Teacher Psychology.

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