Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)

This teaching edition of Shakespeare s Macbeth reprints 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.