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Macbeth Texts and Contexts

by: Shakespeare, William

Macbeth Texts and Contexts

by: Shakespeare, William

ISBN 13: 9780312144548
ISBN 10: 0312144547
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/05/1999
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

This teaching edition of Shakespeare'sMacbethreprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts from King James's writings on politics, contemporary writings on the nature of kingship and tyrannicide, Puritan and Catholic tracts, conduct book literature, and contemporary witchcraft pamphlets.

About The Series

vii

About This Volume

List of Illustrations

xix

Introduction

(20)

PART ONE William Shakespeare Macbeth

(92)

David Bevington

PART TWO Cultural Contexts

113

(256)

Representations of Macbeth

115

(70)

Early Narratives

115

(36)

John Major, From A History of Greater Britain

126

(2)

George Buchanan, From History of Scotland

128

(7)

Raphael Holinshed, From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

135

(16)

The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeare's Macbeth

151

(34)

Simon Forman, From Book of Plays

153

(2)

Thomas Middleton, From The Witch

155

(4)

From ``The Story of Macbeth,'' in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories

159

(3)

Sir William Davenant, From Macbeth, A Tragedy

162

(16)

Thomas Duffett, Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco

178

(7)

Discourses of Sovereignty

185

(46)

The Succession Controversy

185

(21)

R. Doleman [Robert Parsons], From A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England

191

(10)

Henry Constable, From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference

201

(2)

Sir John Hayward, From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference

203

(2)

From Succession Act

205

(1)

The Jacobean Theory of Kingship

206

(16)

King James I, From Basilikon Doron

211

(2)

King James I, From The True Law of Free Monarchies

213

(4)

King James I, From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall

217

(3)

Sir Robert Filmer, From Patriarcha: Or The Natural Power of Kings

220

(2)

Royal Charisma and the King's Touch

222

(9)

William Tooker, From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing

227

(1)

William Clowes, From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise

228

(2)

John Howson, From A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602

230

(1)

Treason and Resistance

231

(40)

Resistance in Theory

231

(18)

John Ponet, From A short Treatise of Politic Power

237

(1)

From An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion

238

(4)

George Buchanan, From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland

242

(2)

Philippe du Plessis Mornay, From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants

244

(5)

Resistance in Action

249

(14)

Nicolo Molin, Report to the Doge and Senate

256

(5)

King James I, From A Speech to Parliament

261

(2)

Equivocation

263

(2)

Sir Edward Coke, From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet

265

(6)

Henery Garnet, From A Treatise of Equivocation

266

(2)

Robert Parsons, From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England

268

(3)

The Cultural Construction of Scotland

271

(29)

William Harrison, From The Description of Scotland

280

(6)

William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2

286

(2)

Sir Thomas Craig, From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms

288

(2)

Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary

290

(3)

Sir Anthony Weldon, From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland

293

(1)

John Taylor, From The Penniless Pilgrimage Or the Moneyless Perambulation

293

(7)

Witchcraf and Prophecy

300

(44)

Discourses of Witchcraft

300

(30)

Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft

307

(4)

George Gifford, From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts

311

(2)

News from Scotland

313

(12)

King James I, From Daemonology In From of a Dialogue

325

(3)

An Act Against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits

328

(2)

Prophecy

330

(14)

From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies

335

(1)

Henry Howard, From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies

336

(1)

Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft

337

(1)

William Perkins, From A Discourse of the Demand Art of Witchcraft

338

(3)

Michel de Montaigne, From Of Prognostications

341

(1)

Francis Bacon, From Of Prophecies

342

(2)

Discourses of the Feminine

344

(25)

Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft

352

(1)

Philip Barrough, From The Method of Physic

353

(1)

Edward Jorden, From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother

354

(3)

John Sadler, From The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass

357

(4)

Helkiah Crooke, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man

361

(3)

Elizabeth Clinton, From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery

364

(2)

James Guillimeau, From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women

366

(3)

Bibliography

369

(12)

Index

381

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