William Shakespeare

Macbeth: Texts and Contexts William Shakespeare

Jacket Description/Back: 'Macbeth' is a tragedy, one of eleven that Shakespeare wrote. Like other tragedies, this one centers on a prominent person who after a significant struggle, suffers defeat. In this defeat the person achieves heroic stature. 'Macbeth' has been a favorite of readers, theatre-goers, and actors for almost four hundred years and is considered one of the best of Shakespeare's plays. Table of Contents: About the Series About This Volume List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, "MACBETH" (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON) PART TWO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1. Representations of Macbeth Early Narratives "John Major, From "A History of Greater Britain"" "George Buchanan, From "History of Scotland"" "Raphael Holinshed, From "The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland"" The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" "Simon Forman, From "Book of Plays"" "Thomas Middleton, From" The Witch"" "From "The Story of Macbeth," in "A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories "" "Sir William Davenant, From "Macbeth, A Tragedy"" "Thomas Duffett, Epilogue to "The Empress of Morocco"" 2. Discourses of Sovereignty The Succession Controversy "R. Doleman [Robert Parsons], From "A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England"" "Henry Constable, From "A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference"" "Sir John Hayward, From "An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference"" "From "Succession Act"" The Jacobean Theory of Kingship "King James I, From "Basilikon Doron"" "King James I, From "The True Law of Free Monarchies"" "King James I, From "A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall "" "Sir Robert Filmer, From "Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings"" Royal Charisma and the King's Touch "William Tooker, From "The Divine Power or Gift of Healing "" "William Clowes, From "A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise"" "John Howson, From" A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602"" 3. Treason and Resistance Resistance in Theory "John Ponet, From "A Short Treatise of Politic Power"" "From "An Homily against Disobedience and Willfull Rebellion"" "George Buchanan, From "The Powers of the Crown in Scotland"" "Philippe du Plessis Mornay, From "A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants"" Resistance in Action "Nicolo Molin, "Reports to the Doge and Senate"" "King James I, From "A Speech to Parliament "" Equivocation "Sir Edward Coke, From" Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet"" "Henry Garnet, From "A Treatise of Equivocation"" "Robert Parsons, From "A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England"" 4. The Cultural Construction of Scotland William Harrison, From "The Description of Scotland" William Shakespeare, "Henry V, Act I, Scene 2" Sir Thomas Craig, From "A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms" Fynes Moryson, From "An Itinerary" Sir Anthony Weldon, From "A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland" John Taylor, From "The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation" 5. Witchcraft and Prophecy Discourses of Witchcraft "Reginald Scot, From "The Discovery of Witchcraft"" "George Gifford, From "A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts"" ""News from Scotland"" "King James I, From "Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue"" ""An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits"" Prophecy "From "An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies"" "Henry Howard, From "A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies"" "Reginald Scot, From "The Discovery of Witchcraft"" "William Perkins, From "A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft"" "Michel de Montaigne, From "Of Prognostications"" "Francis Bacon, From "Of Prophecies"" 6. Discources of the Feminine Reginald Scot, From "The Discovery of Witchcraft" Philip Barrough, From "The Method of Physic" Edmund Jorden, From "A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother" John Sadler, From "The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass" Helkiah Crooke,, From "Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man" Elizabeth Clinton, From "The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery" James Guillimeau, From "Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women" Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Genealogy of the Kings of England and Scotland at the Time of the Play 2. The English Succession 3. The Scottish Succession 4. Genealogy og the Scottish Descent from Banquo by John Leslie 5. "Sergeant at Arms, Slain by Rebels," Woodcut from Raphael "Holinshed's Cronicles, "1577 6. "Macdonwald Slayeth His Wife and Children, and Lastly Himself," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles" 7. "Macbeth, Banquo, and the Three Weird Sisters," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles" 8. "Macbeth Upsurpeth ther Crown, " Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles" 9. Genealogy of the Contemporary Scottish Decent by John Leslie 10. Genealogy of the English Decent by Robert Parsons 11. King James VI and I in 1605, Attributed to John de Critz the Elder 12. Page in James's Handwriting from the Manuscript of "Basilikon Doron" 13. Frontispiece to the Collected "Works "of King James, 1616 14. Frontispiece to "Mischief's Murphy, "John Vicar's 1617 Account of the Gunpowder Plot 15. Key Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and Their Fates, from a Dutch Engraving 16. England Buffeted by Enemies, from John Vicars's "Mischief's Mystery" 17. "The Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Conspirators," a Print by Nicholas de Visscher 18. Map of Scotland, from John Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Greart Britain, "1611-12 19. "The True Picture of One Pict," from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,1590 20. "The True Pictures of a Woman Pict," from Thomas Hariot's "A Brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" 21. Incidents from "News from Scotland, "1591 22. James Interrogated the Witches, Woodcut from "News from Scotland" 23. Scenes from Doctor Fian's Life, Woodcut from" News from Scotland" 24. "Cure" for Womb Disease, from Helkiah Crooke's "Microcosmographia, "1615 25. Frontipiece to John John Sandler, "The Sick Woman's Private Looking Glass, "1636 26. Title Page to Helkiah Crooke's "Microcosmographia " 27. Female Reproductive Organs, From Jacob Rueff's "The Expert Midwife, "1637Marc Notes: Bibl. & index; Avail. in cloth at $39.95

Contributor Bio:  Shakespeare, William Charles John Kean (18 January 1811 - 22 January 1868), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean. William Shakespeare was an English Poet, actor, playwright. He is the greatest writer in the English language in the World and the world's Greatest dramatist and Playwright. He was baptised the 26 April 1564 and died the 23 April 1616. He is often called England's National Poet and the Bard of Avon. William Shakespeare works consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. William Shakespeare is the Father of modern Literature. Contributor Bio:  Carroll, William C William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University.