Macbeth Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Jennifer Little, author of ClassicNote. Completed on May 13, 2000, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Taro Kuriyama June 23, 2008. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Marjorie Garber. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers. New York: Menthuen, 1987.

Stephen Greenblatt. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. Eds. Jean Howard and Marion O'Conner. New York: Methuen, 1987.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet in The Arden Shakespeare. Ed. Harold Jenkins. London, New York: Methuen, 1982.

William Shakespeare. Macbeth in The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Further Readings

A. C. Bradley. Shakespearean tragedy : lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. New York : Penguin, 1991.

Harold Bloom. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.

Martin Harries. “Macbeth, Scare Quotes, and Supernatural History” in Scare Quotes from Shakespeare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

David Norbrook. "Macbeth and the Politics of Historiography" in Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England. Eds. Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. 78-116.