Designed to make Shakespeare’s great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare’s plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare’s language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare’s language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a “Modern Perspective” written by an expert on that particular play.

 

    Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Executive Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and on the editing of the plays.

 

    Paul Werstine is Professor of English at King’s College and the Graduate School of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

 

    From Folger Shakespeare Library

 

    Macbeth  by William Shakespeare

 

    With detailed notes from the World's Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies

 

    Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine

 

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