Macbeth Nce Pa

by Miola,Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780393977868
• ISBN10: 0393977862
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-26
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Updated edition of one of the most popular Shakespeare plays, including a new introductory section on recent performances and adaptations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
A Note on the Text	xxiii
The Text of Macbeth	1	(380)
Sources and Contexts
Sources	85	(30)
N-Town Cycle [The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod]	85	(9)
Seneca Medea	94	(1)
Hercules Furens	95	(2)
Agamemnon	97	(1)
Raphael Holinshed [Duff and Duncan]	98	(17)
Cultural Controversies	115	(46)
Debate on Free Will and Predestination
[An Attack on Free Will]	115	(8)
Martin Luther
Desiderius Erasmus [A Defense of Free Will]	123	(8)
Debate on Witchcraft
The Discovery of Witchcraft	131	(7)
Reginald Scot
News from Scotland	138	(6)
James I
Daemonology	144	(4)
Debate on Tyrannicide
Church of England An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion	148	(6)
[A Defense of Disobedience and Tyrannicide]	154	(5)
Juan de Mariana
Debate on Equivocation
A Treatise on Equivocation	159	(2)
Henry Garnet
Adaptations	161	(220)
Macbeth	161	(13)
William Davenant
Macbeth Travesties	174	(11)
Welcome Msomi uMabatha	185	(20)
Criticism
[Eyewitness Account of Macbeth, 1611]	205	(1)
Simon Forman
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth	206	(5)
Samuel Johnson
The Genius of Shakespeare	211	(5)
Elizabeth Montagu
[On David Garrick's and Hannah Pritchard's Eighteenth-Century Performances]	216	(1)
Thomas Davies
[On Macbeth]	217	(3)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Characters in Macbeth]	220	(9)
William Hazlitt
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth	229	(3)
Thomas De Quincey
[On Playing Lady Macbeth]	232	(5)
Sarah Siddons
[The Tragedy of Macbeth]	237	(17)
A. C. Bradley
Image and Symbol in Macbeth	254	(12)
Kenneth Muir
Two Scenes from Macbeth	266	(16)
Harry Levin
Culture, Character, and Conscience in Shakespeare	282	(11)
Marvin Rosenberg
Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth	293	(23)
Janet Adelman
`What do you mean?': The Languages of Macbeth	316	(12)
A. R. Braunmuller
Macbeth	328	(14)
Derek Jacobi
Macbeth and the Antic Round	342	(15)
Stephen Orgel
``Stands Scotland Where It Did?'': The Location of Macbeth on Film	357	(24)
Peter Holland
Selected Bibliography	381