Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 November 2008 | Edition Number 2

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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.

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'This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.' Year's Work in English Studies

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List of illustrations
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction	p. 1
Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history	p. 2
Topical Macbeth	p. 5
Occasional Macbeth	p. 8
Documents	p. 13
Macbeth in the mind	p. 15
Succession, time, and families	p. 15
Master of his time: 'doubly redoubled strokes'	p. 23
Prospect of belief: witches, women, and mediated knowledge	p. 29
'What do you mean?': the languages of Macbeth	p. 43
Macbeth in performance	p. 55
Performance and adaptation before 1800	p. 57
Later stagings and versions	p. 68
Further variations: Kurosawa, Polanski, Ninagawa	p. 83
Macbeth in the mind and in performance: Act 4, Scene 3	p. 88
Recent performances and adaptations	p. 93
Macbeth filmed	p. 100
Recent criticism and scholarship	p. 103
Macbeth in its time and just after	p. 103
Macbeth since about 1700	p. 106
Note on the text	p. 111
Note on the Commentary	p. 113
List of characters	p. 116
The Play	p. 118
Supplementary notes	p. 255
Textual analysis	p. 261
Casting Macbeth	p. 280
Additional text and music	p. 284
Relineation of the Folio	p. 291
Reading list	p. 295
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