Critical extracts / William Warner, Samuel Johnson, W. Richardson, John Philip Kemble, William Hazlitt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.N. Hudson, Victor Hugo, P.W. Clayden, Edward Dowden, Richard G. Moulton, Sir Henry Irving, Georg Brandes, Stopford A. Brooke, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigmund Freud, Levin L. Schücking, G. Wilson Knight, Stephen Spender, H.B. Charlton, Eugene M. Waith, Harold C. Goddard, Irving Ribner, William Rosen, Marian Bodwell Smith, Terence Eagleton, Maynard Mack, Jr., James L. Calderwood, Michael Goldman, John Turner
Macbeth as tragic hero / Wayne C. Booth
Public justice : Macbeth / C.J. Sisson
Macbeth : the nemesis of the post-Shakespearean actor / Elizabeth Nielsen
The criminal as tragic hero / Robert B. Heilman.
"An unknown fear" : the tragedie of Macbeth / Wilbur Sanders
This even-handed justice / Alan Hobson
Fear in Macbeth / P. Rama Moorthy
Tragic action and sexual stereotyping in Macbeth / Carolyn Asp
Ridding ourselves of Macbeth / Lisa Low
Stealthy lovers in Macbeth / Kay Stockholder
Macbeth : succeeding / Barbara Everett.
The analysis of character / Harold Bloom
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Brutus and Macbeth / G. Wilson Knight
Macbeth : the torture of the mind / Bernard McElroy
A painted devil : Macbeth / Howard Felperin
"Thriftless ambition," foolish wishes, and the tragedy of Macbeth / Robert N. Watson
"Blanket of the dark" : stealthy lovers in Macbeth / Kay Stockholder
Macbeth and the politics of rapture / Christopher Pye
Deconstructing Macbeth / H.W. Fawkner
Thriftless ambition : the tyrants of Shakespeare and Jonson / Rebecca W. Bushnell
Macbeth's three murders / Robert Lanier Reid