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Author:   William Shakespeare ,  William C. Carroll
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Bedford/Saint Martin's
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.70cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780312144548

ISBN 10:   0312144547
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   05 April 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9781319046170
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"  About the Series   About This Volume   List of Illustrations        Introduction      PART ONE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MACBETH (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)      PART TWO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS        1. Representations of Macbeth     Early Narratives        John Major, From A History of Greater Britain        George Buchanan, From History of Scotland        Raphael Holinshed, From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland     The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeare's Macbeth        Simon Forman, From Book of Plays        Thomas Middleton, From The Witch        From ""The Story of Macbeth,"" in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories        Sir William Davenant, From Macbeth, A Tragedy        Thomas Duffett, Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco        2. Discourses of Sovereignty     The Succession Controversy        R. Doleman [Robert Parsons], From A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England        Henry Constable, From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference        Sir John Hayward, From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference        From Succession Act     The Jacobean Theory of Kingship        King James I, From Basilikon Doron        King James I, From The True Law of Free Monarchies        King James I, From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall        Sir Robert Filmer, From Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings     Royal Charisma and the King's Touch        William Tooker, From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing        William Clowes, From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise        John Howson, From A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602        3. Treason and Resistance     Resistance in Theory        John Ponet, From A Short Treatise of Politic Power        From An Homily against Disobedience and Willfull Rebellion        George Buchanan, From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland        Philippe du Plessis Mornay, From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants     Resistance in Action        Nicolo Molin, Reports to the Doge and Senate        King James I, From A Speech to Parliament     Equivocation        Sir Edward Coke, From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet        Henry Garnet, From A Treatise of Equivocation        Robert Parsons, From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England        4. The Cultural Construction of Scotland     William Harrison, From The Description of Scotland     William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2     Sir Thomas Craig, From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms     Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary     Sir Anthony Weldon, From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland     John Taylor, From The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation        5. Witchcraft and Prophecy     Discourses of Witchcraft        Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft        George Gifford, From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts        News from Scotland        King James I, From Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue        An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits     Prophecy        From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies        Henry Howard, From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies        Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft        William Perkins, From A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft        Michel de Montaigne, From Of Prognostications        Francis Bacon, From Of Prophecies        6. Discources of the Feminine     Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft     Philip Barrough, From The Method of Physic     Edmund Jorden, From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother     John Sadler, From The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass     Helkiah Crooke,, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man     Elizabeth Clinton, From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery     James Guillimeau, From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women        Bibliography        Index           ILLUSTRATIONS     1. Genealogy of the Kings of England and Scotland at the Time of the Play     2. The English Succession     3. The Scottish Succession     4. Genealogy og the Scottish Descent from Banquo by John Leslie     5. ""Sergeant at Arms, Slain by Rebels,"" Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Cronicles, 1577     6. ""Macdonwald Slayeth His Wife and Children, and Lastly Himself,"" Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles     7. ""Macbeth, Banquo, and the Three Weird Sisters,"" Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles     8. ""Macbeth Upsurpeth ther Crown, ,"" Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles     9. Genealogy of the Contemporary Scottish Decent by John Leslie     10. Genealogy of the English Decent by Robert Parsons     11. King James VI and I in 1605, Attributed to John de Critz the Elder     12. Page in James's Handwriting from the Manuscript of Basilikon Doron     13. Frontispiece to the Collected Works of King James, 1616     14. Frontispiece to Mischief's Murphy, John Vicar's 1617 Account of the Gunpowder Plot     15. Key Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and Their Fates, from a Dutch Engraving     16. England Buffeted by Enemies, from John Vicars's Mischief's Mystery     17. ""The Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Conspirators,"" a Print by Nicholas de Visscher     18. Map of Scotland, from John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Greart Britain, 1611-12     19. ""The True Picture of One Pict,"" from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,1590     20. ""The True Pictures of a Woman Pict,"" from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia     21. Incidents from News from Scotland, 1591     22. James Interrogated the Witches, Woodcut from News from Scotland     23. Scenes from Doctor Fian's Life, Woodcut from News from Scotland     24. ""Cure"" for Womb Disease, from Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia, 1615     25. Frontipiece to John John Sandler, The Sick Woman's Private Looking Glass, 1636     26. Title Page to Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia     27. Female Reproductive Organs, From Jacob Rueff's The Expert Midwife, 1637"

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