NICOLAS TREDELL is Consultant Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Readers' Guides and has produced five Guides for the series. He has published widely on literary criticism and theory - his previous publications include The Critical Decade (1993), Conversations with Critics (1994) and a history of film theory, Cinemas of the Mind (2002). For many years he has taught and convened Sussex University literature courses, most recently on Shakespeare.

'This Guide both covers the full range of responses to Macbeth and discusses essential criticism in real depth; it gives a sense of the unfolding critical history and of the continuing excitement of thinking about the play.' - Nick Potter, Swansea Institute, UK

• AcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroductionThe Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century: The Development of Macbeth CriticismThe Nineteenth Century: Romantic and Victorian MacbethThe Early Twentieth Century: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and ImageryThe Mid-Twentieth Century: History, Manhood, the Naked Babe, Nature and EvilThe Later Twentieth Century: History, Tragedy, Violence and IdeologyThe Later Twentieth Century: Language, Subjectivity, and SubversionThe Later Twentieth Century: Men, Women and WitchesConclusion: The Twenty-First Century: Future DirectionsSelect BibliographySelect FilmographyIndex.