Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-390) and index.
Contents:
From "Remarks on Some of the Characters of Shakespere / Introduction / Thomas Whately Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of Macbeth -- Key passages in Macbeth -- List of characters in Macbeth -- Criticism through the ages -- Macbeth in the seventeenth century -- From A Continuance of Albions England / William Warner 1785 -- From The Bock of Palies and Notes thereof per Formans for Common Pollicie / Simon Forman c. 1611 -- Excerpts from his adaptation of Macbeth / William Davenant 1664 -- From The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1664-1668 -- Macbeth in the eighteenth century -- From Roscius Anglicanus / John Downes 1708 -- "Macbeth" from Notes on Shakespeare's Plays / Samuel Johnson 1745 -- "The tragedy of Macbeth," from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare / Elizabeth Montagu 1769 -- "Macbeth," from The Dramatic Censor ; or, Critical Companion / Francis Gentleman 1770 -- "On the character of Macbeth," from A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters / William Richardson 1780 -- From "Remarks on Some of the Characters of Shakespere / Thomas Whately 1785 -- "Macbeth in comparison to Hamlet," from William Shakespeare : A Critical Study / From Lectures on Dramatics Art and Literature / Georg Brandes 1898 -- "Macbeth," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817 -- "Notes on Macbeth," from Shakespeare, with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1818 -- From "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" / Thomas DeQuincey 1823 -- "Lady Macbeth," from Shakespeare's Heroines : Characteristics of Women : Moral, Poetical and Historical / Anna Jameson 1832 -- From Conversations with Goethe / Peter Eckermann 1836 -- "Mrs. Siddons acts Lady Macbeth - her own remarks on the character" and "Observations on Mrs. Siddons estimate," from The Life of Mrs. Siddons / Thomas Campbell 1839 -- From William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo 1864 -- From "Macbeth and Lady Macbeth," from The Fortnightly Review / P.W. Clayden 1867 -- "The third murderer in Macbeth," from The Nineteenth Century / Henry Irving 1877 -- "Macbeth," from Shakespeare : His Life, Art, and Characters / H.N. Hudson 1880 -- "Some notes upon the characters in Shakespeare's play of Macbeth," from Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare's Plays / Frances Anne Kemble 1882 -- From Chapter 7, "Macbeth, Lord and Lady : a study in character-contrast," in Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist / Richard G. Moulton 1893 -- "Macbeth in comparison to Hamlet," from William Shakespeare : A Critical Study / Georg Brandes 1898 -- From "Macbeth," in Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos / "Lecture 9 : Macbeth" and "Lecture 10 : Macbeth," from Shakespearean Tragedy / Thomas McAlindon 1991-- "Remarks on Macbeth," from Some Character-types Met With in Psychoanalytic Work / Sigmund Freud 1916 -- "Macbeth," from Notes on Shakespeare's Workmanship / Arthur Quiller-Couch 1917 -- From "Macbeth and the metaphysic of evil," from The Wheel of Fire / G. Wilson Knight 1930 -- "The naked babe and the cloak of manliness," from The Well Wrought Urn / Cleanth Brooks 1947 -- "Macbeth's imagination," from The Royal Play of Macbeth / Henry N. Paul 1950 -- "Macbeth," from The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951 -- "Macbeth," from Shakespeare : the Pattern in His Carpet / Francis Fergusson 1958 -- "Macbeth : a lust for power," from Some Shakespearean themes / L.C. Knights 1959 -- "Notes on Macbeth," from The Freedom of the Poet / John Berryman -- "Macbeth," from Essays on Shakespeare / William Empson 1986 -- "Introduction," from Macbeth (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series) / Harold Bloom 1987 -- From "Macbeth," in Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos / Thomas McAlindon 1991-- Index. "Macbeth : loyal stewards and royal succession," from Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance / Alexander Leggatt 2005 -- "Macbeth : a deed without a name," from Shakespeare's Tragedies : Violation and Identity / Alexander Leggatt 2005 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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