Macbeth : authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism
(Book)

A note on the text

The text of Macbeth

Sources and contexts. Sources : N-Town Cycle (The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod) ; Seneca Medea ; Hercules Furens ; Agamemnon ; Raphael Holinshed (Duff and Duncan)

Cultural controversies. Debate on free will and predestination. (An attack on free will) / Martin Luther

(A defense of free will) / Desiderius Erasmus

Debate on witchcraft. The discovery of witchcraft / Reginald Scot ; News from Scotland / James I ; Daemonology

Debate on tyrannicide. An homily against disobedience and willful rebellion / Church of England ; (A defense of disobedience and tyrannicide) / Juan de Mariana

Debate on equivocation. A treatise on equivocation / Henry Garnet

Adaptations. Macbeth / William Davenant ; Macbeth travesties ; uMabatha / Welcome Msomi

Criticism. (Eyewitness account of Macbeth, 1611) / Simon Forman ; Miscellaneous observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth / Samuel Johnson ; The genius of Shakespeare / Elizabeth Montagu ; (On David Garrick's and Hannah Pritchard's eighteenth-century performances) / Thomas Davies ; (On Macbeth) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; (Characters in Macbeth) / William Hazlitt ; On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey ; (On playing Lady Macbeth) / Sarah Siddons ; (The tragedy of Macbeth) / A.C. Bradley ; Image and Symbol in Macbeth / Kenneth Muir ; Two Scenes from Macbeth / Harry Levin ; Culture, character, and conscience in Shakespeare / Marvin Rosenberg ; Escaping the matrix : construction of masculinity in Macbeth / Janet Adelman ; 'What do you mean?' : the languages of Macbeth / A.R. Braunmuller ; Macbeth / Derek Jacobi ; Macbeth and the Antic Round / Stephen Orgel ; "Stands Scotland where it did?" : the location of Macbeth on film / Peter Holland.