Macbeth: The State of Play

Ann Thompson is a Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, King's College London. She is a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series.

• INTRODUCTIONAnn Thompson (King's College London, UK)THE TEXT AND ITS STATUSNotes and Queries Concerning the Text of MacbethAnthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia, USA)Dwelling ‘in doubtful joy’: Macbeth and the Aesthetics of DisappointmentBrett Gamboa (Dartmouth College, USA)HISTORY AND TOPICALITY Politic Bodies in MacbethDermot Cavanagh (University of Edinburgh, UK)‘To crown my thoughts with acts’: Prophecy and Prescription in MacbethDebapriya Sarkar (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Canada)Lady Macbeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty-First Century StageKevin A. Quarmby (Oxford College of Emory University, Atlanta, USA)CRITICAL APPROACHES AND CLOSE READING‘A walking shadow’: Place, Perception and Disorientation in MacbethDarlene Farabee (University of South Dakota)Cookery and Witchcraft in MacbethGeraldo U. de Sousa (University of Kansas, USA)The Language of MacbethJonathan Hope (Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK) and Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare library, Washington DC, USA)ADAPTATION AND AFTERLIFEThe Shapes of Macbeth: The Staged TextSandra Clark (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Raising the Violence while Lowering the Stakes: Geoffrey Wright’s Screen Adaptation of MacbethPhilippa Sheppard (University of Toronto, Canada)The Butcher and the Text: Adaptation, Theatricality and the ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’ MacbethRamona Wray (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK)