{"product_id":"9780393977868","title":"Macbeth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rich “Sources and Contexts” section provides readers with an understanding of \u003cb\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/b\u003e’s origins from earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and a medieval drama \u003cb\u003eThe Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod\u003c\/b\u003e. The contexts for the play include contemporary debates on predestination vs. free will (Martin Luther vs. Erasmus), witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scot vs. King James I), the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily vs. Juan de Mariana, S.J.), and a treatise on equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J.). This edition also features adaptations—Davenant's moralistic \u003cb\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/b\u003e, some travesties, and Welcome Msomi's recent South African retelling, \u003cb\u003euMabatha\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretations, from the early observations of Simon Forman and Samuel Johnson to the Romantic readings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Thomas De Quincey, to recent essays by Janet Adelman and Stephen Orgel. Sarah Siddons and Derek Jacobi remember performing \u003cb\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/b\u003e, and Peter Holland surveys film interpretations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Selected Bibliography is also included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48804595958000,"sku":"9780393977868","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393977868_p0.jpg?v=1771955626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393977868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}