The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Macbeth provides a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. In his introduction, A. R. Braunmuller explores Macbeth's immediate theatrical and political contexts, particularly the Gunpowder Plot, and addresses such celebrated questions as: do the Witches compel Macbeth to murder; is Lady Macbeth herself in some sense a witch; is Macduff morally culpable? A new and well-illustrated account of the play in performance examines several cinematic versions, such as those by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski, as well as other dramatic adaptations. Several possible new sources are suggested and the presence of Thomas Middleton's writing in the play is also proposed.
Author(s): William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor)
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 318
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Conventions
1 Shakespeare's plays
2 Editions, adaptations, other works of reference, and periodicals
Introduction
Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history
Topical Macbeth
Occasional Macbeth
Documents
Macbeth in the mind
Succession, time, and families
Master of his time: 'doubly redoubled strokes'
Prospect of belief: witches, women, and mediated knowledge
'What do you mean?': the languages of Macbeth
Macbeth in performance
Performance and adaptation before 1800
Later stagings and versions
Further variations: Kurosawa, Polanski, Ninagawa
Macbeth in the mind and in performance: Act 4, Scene 3
Map: Scotland, showing place names mentioned in the text of Macbeth
Note on the Text
Note on the Commentary
List of Characters
MACBETH
Act I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Act II
1
2
3
4
Act III
1
2
3
4
5
6
Act IV
1
2
3
Act V
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Supplementary Notes
1.1
1.2
1.3
2.2
2.3
3.1
3.2
3.6
4.1
4.3
5.3
Textual Analysis
General editorial procedures
Copy for the Folio
Scene division in the Folio
Compositors and the printing of the Folio
Lineation in the Folio
Thomas Middleton's contribution to the Folio
Revision in the Folio
Appendix 1: Casting Macbeth
Appendix 2: Additional text and music
Appendix 3: Relineation of the Folio
Reading list
