Macbeth: A Critical Reader
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Macbeth: A Critical Reader

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  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Macbeth: A Critical Reader

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About this book

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.

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Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Content
  7. Series Introduction
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Timeline
  10. Introduction John Drakakis
  11. The Critical Backstory Sandra Clark
  12. Performance History Laury Magnus
  13. Macbeth: The State of the Art Lauren Shohet
  14. 1 Macbeth and ‘Sovereign Process’ John Drakakis
  15. 2 Rooting for Macbeth: Parable Ethics in Scotland Adrian Streete
  16. 3 Unsexing Macbeth, 1623-1800 Dale Townshend
  17. 4 Macbeth in the Present Terence Hawkes
  18. Resources Christy Desmet
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index