The Tragedy of Macbeth
By: Edited by Nicholas Brooke
Series: Classics of World Literature
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780192824875
Copyright date: 1990
First sentence: Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
Notes: 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' -- Times Literary Supplement
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
title: xi; label: Introduction
title: I; label: 1. Illusion
title: I; label: 2. Language
title: 7; label: 3. Baroque Drama
title: 22; label: 4. Staging
title: 34; label: 5. Text
title: 49; label: (i) Lineation
title: 50; label: (ii) Act 3: Scene 5 -- Act 4, Scene I
title: 51; label: II (iii) The Brevity of Macbeth
title: 55; label: 6. Middleton and the Revision of Macbeth
title: 57; label: 7. Dates
title: 59; label: (i) The Original Play
title: 59; label: (ii) The Revised Version
title: 64; label: 8. Sources
title: 66; label: (1) Chronicles
title: 67; label: (ii) Stuart Politics
title: 71; label: (iii) Classical Ladies
title: 76; label: (iv) Weird Sisters
title: 78; label: (v) Devil Porters
title: 79; label: Editorial Procedures
title: 83; label: Abbreviations and References
title: 87; label: MACBETH
title: 91; title: Appendix A; label: Lineation
title: 213; title: Appendix B; label: Musical Additions
title: 225; title: Appendix C; label: Macbeth at the Globe, 1611
title: 234; label: Index
title: 237