Introduction

The Text of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Textual Notes

Sources and Contexts

SOURCES AND RESOURCES

N-Town Cycle—The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod (14th century)

Seneca—Medea, Hercules, Furens, Agamemnon (1581)

Raphael Holinshed—The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles (1587)

CULTURAL CONTROVERSIES AND CONTEXTS

Debate on Free Will and Predestination

Martin Luther—The Thirty-Sixth Article (1520/1)

Desiderius Erasmus—A Discussion of Free Will (1524)

Debate on Witchcraft

Reginald Scott—The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584)

James I—News from Scotland (1591)

*Daemonology (1597)

Debate on Tyrannicide

Church of England—An Homily against Disobedience (1570)

Juan de Mariana, SJ—Of the King and the Education of the King (1599)

Debate on Equivocation

Henry Garnet—A Treatise on Equivocation (ca. 1600, pub. 1851)

ADAPTATIONS

William Davenant—Macbeth (1674)

Macbeth Travesties (1820-66)

Welcome Msomi—uMabatha (1996)

Criticism

Simon Forman—Book of Plays (1611)

Samuel Johnson—Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745)

Elizabeth Montagu—An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769)

Thomas Davies—[On Garrick’s and Pritchard’s 18th-Century Performances] (1783)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge—[On Macbeth] (1808-19, pub. 1836)

William Hazlitt—Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817)

Thomas De Quincey—On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1828)

Sarah Siddons—[On Playing Lady Macbeth] (1834)

A.C. Bradley—Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)

Kenneth Muir—Image and Symbol in Macbeth (1966)

Harry Levin—Two Scenes from Macbeth (1982)

Marvin Rosenberg—Culture, Character, and Conscience in Shakespeare (1988)

Janet Adelman—Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth (1992)

A.R. Braunmuller—“What do you mean?”: The Languages of Macbeth (1997)

Derek Jacobi—Macbeth (1998)

Stephen Orgel—Macbeth and the Antic Round (1999)

Peter Holland—“Stands Scotland Where It Did?: The Location of Macbeth on Film (2003)

Selected Bibliography