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William Shakespeare, Robert Miola (editor). Macbeth (Norton Critical Editions). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Marjorie Garber. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers. New York: Menthuen, 1987.
Stephen Greenblatt. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. Eds. Jean Howard and Marion O'Conner. New York: Methuen, 1987.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet in The Arden Shakespeare. Ed. Harold Jenkins. London, New York: Methuen, 1982.
William Shakespeare. Macbeth in The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Further Readings
A. C. Bradley. Shakespearean tragedy : lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. New York : Penguin, 1991.
Harold Bloom. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.
Martin Harries. “Macbeth, Scare Quotes, and Supernatural History” in Scare Quotes from Shakespeare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
David Norbrook. "Macbeth and the Politics of Historiography" in Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England. Eds. Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. 78-116.
Macbeth Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for Macbeth is a great
resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
There are two pieces of information here, hence the two messengers. The bleeding sergeant is meant to inform Duncan, and the audience, of Macbeth's valor in battle. Ross is meant to inform about the Thane of Cawdor being a traitor. Both pieces of...
What is significant about the first words that Macbeth speaks in the play?
A motif or recurring idea in the play is equivocation. There is the balance of the dark and the light, the good and the bad. Macbeth's first line reflects this. It...
Macbeth study guide contains a biography of William Shakespeare, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
Macbeth essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
