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Macbeth : the text of Macbeth, the actors' gallery, sources and contexts, criticism, afterlives, resources /

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"This Norton Critical Edition includes: the First Folio (1623) text of Macbeth, with updated and expanded footnotes and introductory materials by Robert S. Miola; illustrations from a wide range of adaptations, including modern stage and film productions; 'The Actors' Gallery,' c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: Miola, Robert S. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Macbeth, > King of Scotland, > active 11th century > Drama.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Macbeth > Sources.
Macbeth, > King of Scotland, > active 11th century > In literature.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Macbeth.
Kings and rulers > Succession > Drama.
Regicides > Drama.
Scotland > Drama.
tragedies.
Tragedies (Drama)
Tragédies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The mythic Macbeth: classics and Christianity
  • The Scottish play: race and nation
  • Afterlives: Scottish; African American; Feminist
  • The text of Macbeth
  • Textual notes
  • The actors' gallery
  • Letter (1762) / David Garrick
  • Dramatic miscellanies (1783) / Thomas Davies
  • From Garrick's Macbeth (1761) / David Garrick
  • [On playing Lady Macbeth] (1834) / Sarah Siddons
  • Notes on Siddons's Lady Macbeth (1809) / G. J. Bell
  • Letter (1849) / Edwin Forrest
  • Reminiscences (1849) / William Macready
  • [Interview on the 1936 Voodoo production and the 1948 Macbeth film] (1976) / Orson Welles
  • Interviews (2001) / Antony Sher and Harriet Walter
  • Stewart Interview (2010) / Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood
  • Fleetwood Interview (2011) / Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood
  • Interview on The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) / Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, and others
  • Sources
  • [The slaughter of the holy innocents and the death of Herod] (fourteenth century) / N-Town Cycle - From Medea (first century, trans. 1581) / Seneca
  • From Hercules Furens (first century, trans. 1581) / Seneca
  • From Agamemnon (first century, trans. 1581) / Seneca
  • From Chronicles (1587) / Raphael Holinshed
  • Contexts
  • Debate on witchcraft
  • The discovery of witchcraft (1584) / Reginald Scot
  • News from Scotland (1591) / King James I of England
  • Daemonology (1597) / King James I of England
  • Debate on tyrannicide
  • An homily against disobedience and willful rebellion (1570) / Church of England
  • [A defense of disobedience and tyrannicide] (1599) / Juan de Mariana
  • Debate on equivocation
  • A treatise of equivocation (before 1606) / Henry Garnet
  • Arraignment of Henry Garnet, S.J. (1606) / Sir Edward Coke
  • Debate on the union of Scotland and England
  • [A proclamation concerning the King Majesty's title, King of Great Britain] (1604) / King James I of England
  • His Majesty's speech to both the Houses of Parliament (1607) / King James I of England
  • [Letter to His Majesty] (1607) / The Parliament of Scotland
  • Criticism
  • [Eyewitness account of Macbeth] (1611) / Simon Forman
  • Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth (1745) / Samuel Johnson
  • [On Macbeth] (1808-19) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • "Stands Scotland where it did?": the location of Macbeth on film (2004) / Peter Holland
  • Macbeth and Middleton (2014) / Gary Taylor
  • The witch in history (1996) / Diane Purkiss
  • Subjects to the King's divorce (2003) / Olga L. Valbuena
  • Archipelagic Macbeth (2010) / John Kerrigan
  • Decolonizing the Shakespeare film in twenty-first century adaptations of Macbeth (2025) / Courtney Lehmann
  • Afterlives
  • Macbeth (1674) / William Davenant
  • Macbeth travesties (1820-66)
  • uMabatha (1996) / Welcome Msomi
  • Dunsinane (2010) / David Greig.