Macbeth A Critical Reader A Critical Reader [Hardcover]

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,Macbethis 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.

John Drakakisis Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. He is editor ofAlternative Shakespeares,Shakespearean Tragedy, the Arden 3 edition of TheMerchant of Venice, General Editor of Routledge'sNew Critical Idiomseries, and joint editor and contributor toGothic Shakespeares.

Dale Townshendis Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. He is author ofThe Orders of the Gothicand co-editor ofGothic Shakespeares.

Series Introduction, Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins
Macbeth Timeline
Introduction, John Drakakis and Dale Townshend
1. The Critical Backstory, Sandra Clarke
2. Performance History, Laury Magnus
3. The State of the Art, Julie Sanders
4. New Directions
i.Macbethin the Present, Terence Hawkes
ii. UnsexingMacbeth, Dale Townshend
iii.Macbeth, Religion and Nationalism, Adrian Streete
iv.Macbethand Sovereignty
5. Resources, Christy Desmet
Bibliography
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