Ann Thompson - Macbeth: The State of Play

Macbeth

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE STATE OF PLAY SERIES

General Editors: Lena Cowen Orlin and Ann Thompson

Macbeth: The State of Play , edited by Ann Thompson

Othello: The State of Play , edited by Lena Cowen Orlin

Further titles in preparation

Macbeth

The State of Play

Edited by Ann Thompson

CONTENTS

The Arden Shakespeare

State of Play

Series Editors: Ann Thompson and Lena Cowen Orlin

This series represents a collaboration between Kings College London and Georgetown University. Kings is the home of the London Shakespeare Centre and Georgetown is the home of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the state of play with respect to specific works by Shakespeare. Our method is to convene a seminar at the annual convention of the SAA and see what it is that preoccupies scholars now. SAA seminars are enrolled through an open registration process that brings together academics from all stages of their careers. Participants prepare short papers that are circulated in advance and then discussed when the seminar convenes on conference weekend. From the papers submitted, the seminar leader selects a group for inclusion in a collection that aims to include fresh work by emerging voices and established scholars both. The general editors are grateful for the further collaboration of Bloomsbury Publishing, and especially our commissioning editor Margaret Bartley.

In the Series:

Macbeth , edited by Ann Thompson

Othello , edited by Lena Cowen Orlin

Dermot Cavanagh teaches English at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently editing King John for the Norton Shakespeare and contributing to a revised edition of Geoffrey Bulloughs Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (ed. John Drakakis) by editing a volume on Earlier English History Plays . He is also working on a critical study of Shakespeare and the commonwealth.

Sandra Clark is Professor Emerita of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. She is Series Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. Her publications include The Elizabethan Pamphleteers: Popular Moralistic Pamphlets, 15801640 (1984), The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: Sexual Themes and Dramatic Representation (1994), Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England (2003) and Renaissance Drama (2007). She is currently completing an edition of Macbeth for the Arden Shakespeare.

Anthony B. Dawson is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He has written extensively on performance history and theory, on early modern theatre and culture, especially religious culture, and on matters relating to editing and textual theory. His books include Hamlet (for the Shakespeare in Performance series, 1995), The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeares England (written with Paul Yachnin, 2001) and editions of Troilus and Cressida (New Cambridge Shakespeare series, 2003), Timon of Athens (with Gretchen Minton, Arden 2008) and Richard II (with Paul Yachnin, Oxford, 2011). He is currently editing versions of Hamlet for the Norton Shakespeare and has begun work on Macbeth for Internet Shakespeare Editions.

Darlene Farabee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama. Her current book project is titled Shakespeares Staged Spaces and Audience Perception .

Brett Gamboa is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare and other dramatic literature. He also directs plays, on and off campus, and has staged ten of Shakespeares. He is currently working on performance commentaries for each play in the Norton Shakespeare and is completing a book about doubling roles in Shakespeares plays.

Jonathan Hope is Professor of Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. He has published widely on Shakespeares language and the history of the English language. His most recent book, Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the English Renaissance (2010), seeks to reconstruct the linguistic world of Shakespeares England and measure its distance from our own. With Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library), he is part of a major digital humanities project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, to develop tools and procedures for the linguistic analysis of texts across the period 14501800. Early work from this project is blogged at: winedarksea.org

Kevin A. Quarmby is Assistant Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University, Atlanta. He is co-director of the World Shakespeare Project, a model for interactive pedagogy in a new media world. His book, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2012), considers Measure for Measure as one of several interrelated disguise plays. His previous career was as a professional UK actor, appearing in Shakespeare productions throughout the country, including Macbeth at the Old Vic (1980). He has published journal articles on As You Like It , Hamlet , Macbeth and The Tempest ; forthcoming work explores contemporary productions of Measure for Measure and King Lear .

Debapriya Sarkar is completing her doctoral dissertation on Possible Knowledge: Forms of Literary and Scientific Thought in Early Modern England on a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the English Department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, epic and romance, history of science and possible worlds in fiction and philosophy. She is also currently working on a series of essays on romance and early modern epistemology.

Philippa Sheppard lectures for the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She also lectures regularly for the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She has published chapters in Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Drama , Latin American Shakespeares , Renaissance Medievalisms , Faith and Fantasy in the Renaissance and Who Hears in Shakespeare . She has also published essays about Shakespeare and adaptation and is currently completing her book on film adaptations of Shakespeare.

Geraldo U. de Sousa is Professor of English at the University of Kansas, and Deputy Executive Director and Fellow of the Mediterranean Studies Association. His research explores the intersection of various disciplines, including Renaissance literature and history, theatre and stage history, anthropology, history of architecture and art history. His publications include Shakespeares Cross-Cultural Encounters (1999, new edition 2002), At Home in Shakespeares Tragedies (2010) and Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide (with David Bergeron, 3rd edition 1995). He served as editor of the journal Mediterranean Studies for ten years and has published on Luso-Brazilian, Mediterranean and global studies. He is currently working on a book on Jacobean City Comedy and everyday life in early modern London.

Ann Thompson is Professor of English at Kings College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. She is a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare and has (with Neil Taylor) edited all three texts of Hamlet for Arden. Other publications include an edition of The Taming of the Shrew (1984, updated 2003), Shakespeares Chaucer (1978), Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (with John O. Thompson, 1987), Teaching Women: Feminism and English Studies (edited with Helen Wilcox, 1989), Women Reading Shakespeare, 16601900 (edited with Sasha Roberts, 1996) and In Arden: Editing Shakespeare (edited with Gordon McMullan, 2003). Current projects include an edition of Cymbeline for the Norton Shakespeare, and a book on Shakespeare and metonymy.