This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and globally influential plays. Its eighteen new chapters represent a broad spectrum of current scholarly and interpretive approaches, from historicist criticism to performance theory to cultural studies.

1. Nick Moschovakis, "Introduction: Dualistic Macbeth? Problematic Macbeth?" 2. Rebecca Lemon, "Sovereignty and Treason in Macbeth" 3. Jonathan Baldo, "'A rooted sorrow': Scotland's Unusable Past" 4. Rebecca Ann Bach, "The 'Peerless' Macbeth: Friendship and Family in Macbeth" 5. Julie Barmazel, "The servant to defect: Macbeth, Impotence, and the Body Politic" 6. Abraham Stoll, "Macbeth's Equivocal Conscience" 7. Lois Feuer, "Hired For Mischief: The Masterless Man in Macbeth" 8. Stephen Deng, "Healing Angels and 'Golden Blood': Money and Mystical Kingship in Macbeth" 9. Lisa Tomaszewski, "'Throw physic to the dogs!': Moral Physicians and Medical Malpractice in Macbeth" 10. Lynne Bruckner, "'Let Grief Convert to Anger': Authority and Affect in Macbeth" 11. Michael David Fox, "Like a Poor Player: Audience Emotional Response, Nonrepresentational Performance, and the Staging of Suffering In Macbeth" 12. James Wells, "'To be thus is nothing': Macbeth and the Trials of Dramatic Identity" 13. Laura Engel, "The Personating of Queens: Lady Macbeth, Sarah Siddons, and the Creation of Female Celebrity in the Late Eighteenth Century" 14. Stephen Buhler, "Politicizing Macbeth on U.S. Stages: Garson's MacBird! and Greenland's Jungle Rot" 15. Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, "Macbeth in Chinese Opera" 16. Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson, "Macbeth: Recent Migrations of the Cinematic Brand" 17. Bruno Lessard, "Hypermedia Macbeth: Cognition and Performance" 18. Pamela Mason, "Sunshine in Macbeth"