Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential play, Macbeth encapsulates the greatest Christian tragedy of all: the Fall of Man. An elaborate and glaring depiction of the human condition stimulated by temptation and sin, Macbeth examines the significance of good and evil in people’s lives, a question as hugely relevant today as it was in the early seventeenth century. Shakespeare’s greatest psychological portrait of self-destruction, Macbeth is a vivid dramatization of the psychological repercussions of unbridled ambition. Incorporating a broad spectrum of current scholarly and interpretive approaches, the anthology attempts to examine the various critical, gendered, theatrical, and cinematic interpretations of this classic tragedy. Addressing seminal aspects like Damnation, Gender Ambiguity, Freewill, Conscience, Morality, Power, Fate, Regicide, Tyranny, Ambition, Guilt, Witchcraft, and Imagery, the eighteen essays in this anthology are a brilliant tribute to the tragic vision of Shakespeare. The anthology addresses itself to scholars of English literature and strives to open a new and fruitful direction in the study of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the scholars, researchers, and students of English literature.
Prof. Sunita Sinha, a gold medallist from Patna University, is presently the Principal at Women’s College, Samastipur, affiliated to L.N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar. She has to her credit twenty-seven books which have been highly acclaimed in academic circles. Her authorial ventures include Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels, Post-Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives, and Rethinking Gender: Masculinity, Femininity and Queerity in Postcolonial Indian Fiction. Her edited books include New Urges in Post-Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons, Reconceiving Post colonialism: Visions and Revisions, Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions, Canons of Children’s Literature, Shakespeare: A Reappraisal, Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence: In Honour of Dr. R.K. Sinha, Indian Women Writing in English: A Feminist Study, Exploring Feminism: Essence and Ethos, Young Adult Fiction: Issues and Trends, Feminist Slants in Contemporary Writings, Marginalized Voices in American Literature: Margins and Fringes, and Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. She has participated in many national and international seminars and conferences and has written many scholarly papers which have been published in various national and international books and journals. Currently, she is the Chief Editor of three international journals: The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, The Atlantic Literary Review, and The Atlantic Critical Review.
