The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio
(1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume
includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual
notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature "The
Actors' Gallery," which presents famous actors and actresses-among
them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira Mikijiro,
Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwood-reflecting on their roles in
major productions of Macbeth for stage and screen. "Sources and
Contexts" provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth's
origins in earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman
playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and the
medieval drama The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Death of
Herod. Contexts for the play include contemporary debates on
predestination versus free will (Martin Luther versus Erasmus),
witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scott versus King James I),
the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily versus Jan de
Mariana, S.J.), and the ethics of equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J.,
versus-new to the Second Edition-Sir Edward Coke). Eight carefully
chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and
theatrical interpretation. Contributors include Simon Forman,
Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Harry
Levin, Stephen Orgel, Peter Holland, and, presenting the latest
arguments on the authorship controversy, Gary Taylor. Finally, an
engaging new selection of Macbeth's "Afterlives" includes excerpts
from Giuseppi Verdi's Macbeth and related letters, Eugene Ionesco's
Macbett (1972), Bill Cain's Equivocation (2009), and more. This
edition also provides a list of online and print resources.
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