About the Series
  About This Volume
  List of Illustrations
    
  Introduction
    
PART ONE: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MACBETH (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
    
PART TWO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS
    
  1. Representations of Macbeth
    Early Narratives
       John Major, From A History of Greater Britain
       George Buchanan, From History of Scotland
       Raphael Holinshed, From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
    The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeares Macbeth
       Simon Forman, From Book of Plays
       Thomas Middleton, From The Witch
       From "The Story of Macbeth," in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories
       Sir William Davenant, From Macbeth, A Tragedy
       Thomas Duffett, Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco
    
  2. Discourses of Sovereignty
    The Succession Controversy
       R. Doleman [Robert Parsons], From A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England
       Henry Constable, From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference
       Sir John Hayward, From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference
       From Succession Act
    The Jacobean Theory of Kingship
       King James I, From Basilikon Doron
       King James I, From The True Law of Free Monarchies
       King James I, From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall
       Sir Robert Filmer, From Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings
    Royal Charisma and the Kings Touch
       William Tooker, From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing
       William Clowes, From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise
       John Howson, From A Sermon Preached at St. Marys in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602
    
  3. Treason and Resistance
    Resistance in Theory
       John Ponet, From A Short Treatise of Politic Power
       From An Homily against Disobedience and Willfull Rebellion
       George Buchanan, From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland
       Philippe du Plessis Mornay, From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants
    Resistance in Action
       Nicolo Molin, Reports to the Doge and Senate
       King James I, From A Speech to Parliament
    Equivocation
       Sir Edward Coke, From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet
       Henry Garnet, From A Treatise of Equivocation
       Robert Parsons, From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England
    
  4. The Cultural Construction of Scotland
    William Harrison, From The Description of Scotland
    William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2
    Sir Thomas Craig, From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms
    Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary
    Sir Anthony Weldon, From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland
    John Taylor, From The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation
    
  5. Witchcraft and Prophecy
    Discourses of Witchcraft
       Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
       George Gifford, From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts
       News from Scotland
       King James I, From Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue
       An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits
    Prophecy
       From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies
       Henry Howard, From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies
       Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
       William Perkins, From A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft
       Michel de Montaigne, From Of Prognostications
       Francis Bacon, From Of Prophecies
    
  6. Discources of the Feminine
    Reginald Scot, From The Discovery of Witchcraft
    Philip Barrough, From The Method of Physic
    Edmund Jorden, From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother
    John Sadler, From The Sick Womans Private Looking-Glass
    Helkiah Crooke,, From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man
    Elizabeth Clinton, From The Countess of Lincolns Nursery
    James Guillimeau, From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women
    
  Bibliography
    
  Index
    
    
ILLUSTRATIONS
    1. Genealogy of the Kings of England and Scotland at the Time of the Play
    2. The English Succession
    3. The Scottish Succession
    4. Genealogy og the Scottish Descent from Banquo by John Leslie
    5. "Sergeant at Arms, Slain by Rebels," Woodcut from Raphael Holinsheds Cronicles, 1577
    6. "Macdonwald Slayeth His Wife and Children, and Lastly Himself," Woodcut from Raphael Holinsheds Chronicles
    7. "Macbeth, Banquo, and the Three Weird Sisters," Woodcut from Raphael Holinsheds Chronicles
    8. "Macbeth Upsurpeth ther Crown, ," Woodcut from Raphael Holinsheds Chronicles
    9. Genealogy of the Contemporary Scottish Decent by John Leslie
    10. Genealogy of the English Decent by Robert Parsons
    11. King James VI and I in 1605, Attributed to John de Critz the Elder
    12. Page in Jamess Handwriting from the Manuscript of Basilikon Doron
    13. Frontispiece to the Collected Works of King James, 1616
    14. Frontispiece to Mischiefs Murphy, John Vicars 1617 Account of the Gunpowder Plot
    15. Key Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and Their Fates, from a Dutch Engraving
    16. England Buffeted by Enemies, from John Vicarss Mischiefs Mystery
    17. "The Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Conspirators," a Print by Nicholas de Visscher
    18. Map of Scotland, from John Speeds The Theatre of the Empire of Greart Britain, 1611-12
    19. "The True Picture of One Pict," from Thomas Hariots A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,1590
    20. "The True Pictures of a Woman Pict," from Thomas Hariots A Brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
    21. Incidents from News from Scotland, 1591
    22. James Interrogated the Witches, Woodcut from News from Scotland
    23. Scenes from Doctor Fians Life, Woodcut from News from Scotland
    24. "Cure" for Womb Disease, from Helkiah Crookes Microcosmographia, 1615
    25. Frontipiece to John John Sandler, The Sick Womans Private Looking Glass, 1636
    26. Title Page to Helkiah Crookes Microcosmographia
    27. Female Reproductive Organs, From Jacob Rueffs The Expert Midwife, 1637