Macbeth - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The First Folio (1623) text of Macbeth, with updated and expanded footnotes and introductory materials by Robert S. Miola.


• Illustrations from a wide range of adaptations, including modern stage and film productions.


• "The Actors' Gallery," collecting reflections from actors and actresses about their roles in major productions of Macbeth from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.


• Sources and contexts highlighting early texts that influenced Shakespeare and that range in topics from witchcraft to regicide, with a brand-new category on the union of Scotland and England.


• Nine selections-four new to the Third Edition-of literary and theatrical criticism.


• A revised "Afterlives" section, featuring four examples of how Macbeth continues to be reimagined beyond the Folio.


• An annotated list of online and print resources.

About the author

Robert S. Miola is Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair of English at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Reading, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence, Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca, and The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, as well as dozens of articles on sixteenth-century English literature.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Miola Robert S. (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781324044376
• ISBN: 978-1-324-04437-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 357 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean