William Shakespeare

Macbeth

Texts and Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

'Macbeth' is a tragedy, one of eleven that Shakespeare wrote. Like other tragedies, this one centers on a prominent person who after a significant struggle, suffers defeat. In this defeat the person achieves heroic stature. 'Macbeth' has been a favorite of readers, theatre-goers, and actors for almost four hundred years and is considered one of the best of Shakespeare's plays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bedford Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780312144548
• ISBN-10: 0312144547
• Artikelnr.: 22129869

Autorenporträt

William Shakespeare, Edited by William C. Caroll

Bild: Wikipedia

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series
About This Volume
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART ONE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MACBETH (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
PART TWO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS
1. Representations of Macbeth
Early Narratives
John Major, From A History of Greater Britain
George Buchanan, From History of Scotland
Raphael Holinshed, From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Simon Forman, From Book of Plays
Thomas Middleton, From The Witch
From "The Story of Macbeth," in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable
Stories
Sir William Davenant, From Macbeth, A Tragedy
Thomas Duffett, Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco
2. Discourses of Sovereignty
The Succession Controversy
R. Doleman [Robert Parsons], From A Conference about the Next Succession to
the Crown of England
Henry Constable, From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference
Sir John Hayward, From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference
From Succession Act
The Jacobean Theory of Kingship
King James I, From Basilikon Doron
King James I, From The True Law of Free Monarchies
King James I, From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at
Whitehall
Sir Robert Filmer, From Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings
Royal Charisma and the King's Touch
William Tooker, From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing
William Clowes, From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise
John Howson, From A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of
November, 1602
3. Treason and Resistance
Resistance in Theory
John Ponet, From A Short Treatise of Politic Power
From An Homily against Disobedience and Willfull Rebellion
George Buchanan, From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland
Philippe du Plessis Mornay, From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants
Resistance in Action
Nicolo Molin, Reports to the Doge and Senate
King James I, From A Speech to Parliament
Equivocation
Sir Edward Coke, From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet, From A Treatise of Equivocation
Robert Parsons, From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic
Subjects in England
4. The Cultural Construction of Scotland
William Harrison, From The Description of Scotland
William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2
Sir Thomas Craig, From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms
Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary
Sir Anthony Weldon, From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of
Scotland
John Taylor, From The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation
5. Witchcraft and Prophecy
Discourses of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
George Gifford, From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts
News from Scotland
King James I, From Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue
An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked
Spirits
Prophecy
From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies
Henry Howard, From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies
Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
William Perkins, From A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft
Michel de Montaigne, From Of Prognostications
Francis Bacon, From Of Prophecies
6. Discources of the Feminine
Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
Philip Barrough, From The Method of Physic
Edmund Jorden, From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation
of the Mother
John Sadler, From The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass
Helkiah Crooke,, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man
Elizabeth Clinton, From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery
James Guillimeau, From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women
Bibliography
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Genealogy of the Kings of England and Scotland at the Time of the Play
2. The English Succession
3. The Scottish Succession
4. Genealogy og the Scottish Descent from Banquo by John Leslie
5. "Sergeant at Arms, Slain by Rebels," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's
Cronicles, 1577
6. "Macdonwald Slayeth His Wife and Children, and Lastly Himself," Woodcut
from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
7. "Macbeth, Banquo, and the Three Weird Sisters," Woodcut from Raphael
Holinshed's Chronicles
8. "Macbeth Upsurpeth ther Crown, ," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's
Chronicles
9. Genealogy of the Contemporary Scottish Decent by John Leslie
10. Genealogy of the English Decent by Robert Parsons
11. King James VI and I in 1605, Attributed to John de Critz the Elder
12. Page in James's Handwriting from the Manuscript of Basilikon Doron
13. Frontispiece to the Collected Works of King James, 1616
14. Frontispiece to Mischief's Murphy, John Vicar's 1617 Account of the
Gunpowder Plot
15. Key Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and Their Fates, from a Dutch Engraving
16. England Buffeted by Enemies, from John Vicars's Mischief's Mystery
17. "The Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Conspirators," a Print by Nicholas
de Visscher
18. Map of Scotland, from John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Greart
Britain, 1611-12
19. "The True Picture of One Pict," from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and True
Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,1590
20. "The True Pictures of a Woman Pict," from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and
true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
21. Incidents from News from Scotland, 1591
22. James Interrogated the Witches, Woodcut from News from Scotland
23. Scenes from Doctor Fian's Life, Woodcut from News from Scotland
24. "Cure" for Womb Disease, from Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia, 1615
25. Frontipiece to John John Sandler, The Sick Woman's Private Looking
Glass, 1636
26. Title Page to Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia
27. Female Reproductive Organs, From Jacob Rueff's The Expert Midwife,
1637