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Macbeth: A Critical Reader: A Critical Reader: A Critical Reader
Author(s): John Drakakis (Editor), Dale Townshend
- Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare (UK)
- Publication Date: 18 July 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0567640795
- ISBN-13: 9780567640796
Book Description
ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.
Key features include:
Essays on the play’s critical and performance history
A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
A selection of new essays by leading scholars
A survey of resources to direct students’ further reading about the play in print and online
Regularly performed and studied,
Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon’s most compellingly conflicted tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Dale Townshend is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. He is author of The Orders of the Gothic and co-editor of Gothic Shakespeares.
