Collects nine critical essays on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and includes a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography, and an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Macbeth : counter-Hamlet / James l. Calderwood -- "Born of woman" : fantasies of maternal power in Macbeth / Janet Adelman -- Macbeth appalled (I) / Stanley Cavell -- Theology as tragedy in Macbeth / Susan Snyder -- Who "has no children" in Macbeth? / Tom Clayton -- Macbeth : the sexual underplot / Ralph Berry -- Macbeth's three murders / Robert Lanier Reid -- "No boasting like a fool"? : Macbeth and Herod / R. Chris Hassel Jr. -- Macbeth / Piotr Sadowski -- Chronology.