Macbeth: A Norton Critical Edition
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A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror―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 “The Actors’ Gallery,” which presents famous actors and actresses―among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira Mikijirô, Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwood―reflecting on their roles in major productions of Macbeth for stage and screen. “Sources and Contexts” provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth’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., versus―new to the Second Edition―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 Macbeth ’s “Afterlives” includes excerpts from Giuseppi Verdi’s Macbeth and related letters, Eugène Ionesco’s Macbett (1972), Bill Cain’s Equivocation (2009), and more. This edition also provides a list of online and print resources. 12 Review: Great for school - Great for school. Has a lot of explanation of the play and great to write your papers Review: Great! - Book in excellent condition, arrived very fast.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 Reviews |
A**L
Great for school
Great for school. Has a lot of explanation of the play and great to write your papers
B**R
Great!
Book in excellent condition, arrived very fast.
J**E
A Treasure for English Teachers
This book is very helpful for teachers. It provides lots of great resources you can use to plan your unit with. Additionally, it gives you a variety of peer-reviewed articles that you can use to extend your own analysis of the play. I am very grateful for this product and plan to buy more Norton Critical Editions for my other units.
L**N
Leaves all other Macbeths in the dust
Both Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood were outstanding. They put so much feeling into the words that one forgot they were using Shakespeare's prose. I have seen other productions with well known actors and this outshone them all. The set and the witches were also terrifyingly good. I highly recommend this production.
M**.
Read the Scottish Play!
This Shakespeare guy, he could really write.
R**N
For school
My son needed it for Honors English Lit class.
A**R
As advertised and timely shipping
The product was as advertised and arrived promptly.
C**L
i didn't enjoy it. i'm surprised at shakespeare actually
i purchased this book for class. it's one of the more grotesque assignments i've had to read. personally, i didn't enjoy it. i'm surprised at shakespeare actually. the plot is so unusual.
F**S
Una delle opere più interessanti di Shakespeare
Se volete leggere questo testo, vi consiglio di prendere questa versione perché le critiche aggiunte rendono ancora più interessante e coinvolgente la storia. Le Norton critical edition sono le migliori versioni per leggere, e studiare, le opere shakespeariane in maniera approfondita.
A**R
Good to read
Like reading Shakespeare
R**O
the Arden editions are long in gestation and pretty damned wonderful when they do come out
This edition of Macbeth has essays galore, as all the Norton critical texts, as well as the play but I find the essays date from rather too long ago. Though very interesting in their own right, they tend not to reflect current scholarly interests. That said, I have nothing but praise for the book but its rivals, the Arden edition, must be Number One; the Arden editions are long in gestation and pretty damned wonderful when they do come out.
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