Authors: William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Robert S. Miola
ISBN-13: 9780393977868, ISBN-10: 0393977862
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
The Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth, Shakespeare's terrifying depiction of a man and woman's fall into evil, derives from the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition includes an introduction, annotations, and textual notes.
Introduction: Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history; Macbeth in the mind; Macbeth in performance; Macbeth in the mind and in performance; Recent performances and adaptations; Note on the text; List of characters; THE PLAY; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes:
1. Casting Macbeth;
2. Additional text and music;
3. Relineation of the Folio; Reading list.