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This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed…

Notes on the background and sources of the tragedy and past and present criticism preface the text

Includes a general introduction to Shakespeare’s life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Macbeth, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen and a commentary.