Macbeth (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Macbeth (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

A tragedy that evokes both pity and terrorâ€”now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.

The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes.

The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature â€œThe Actorsâ€™ Gallery,â€ which presents famous actors and actressesâ€”among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira MikijirÃ´, Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwoodâ€”reflecting on their roles in major productions of Macbeth for stage and screen.

â€œSources and Contextsâ€ provides readers with an understanding of Macbethâ€™s origins in earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and the medieval drama The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Death of Herod. Contexts for the play include contemporary debates on predestination versus free will (Martin Luther versus Erasmus), witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scott versus King James I), the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily versus Jan de Mariana, S.J.), and the ethics of equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J., versusâ€”new to the Second Editionâ€”Sir Edward Coke).

Eight carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretation. Contributors include Simon Forman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Harry Levin, Stephen Orgel, Peter Holland, and, presenting the latest arguments on the authorship controversy, Gary Taylor. Finally, an engaging new selection of Macbethâ€™s â€œAfterlivesâ€ includes excerpts from Giuseppi Verdiâ€™s Macbeth and related letters, Eugene Ionescoâ€™s Macbett (1972), Bill Cainâ€™s Equivocation (2009), and more.

This edition also provides a list of online and print resources.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-02-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-02-07
Format	Kindle eBook

Macbeth (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

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