Authors: William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (Editor), Jesse M. Lander (Editor), Jesse M. Lander
ISBN-13: 9781411400375, ISBN-10: 1411400372
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.
Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:
The only Shakespearean tragedy that has a villain as its hero, Macbeth presents a stark and disturbing view of the psychology of wickedness and guilt. The editor, Jesse M. Lander, draws on the early modern literature of witchcraft and demonology to provide an illuminating context for the play.