Global Macbeth

This edited collection gathers contributions by Shakespeare scholars from a wide range of countries, both European and non-European, representing many different cultures. It is divided into three sections: Asia, Europe, and the Americas, which explore the challenges involved in rendering Macbeth interesting and relevant in diverse cultural conditions and some of the ways in which these challenges are faced. The collection demonstrates the extraordinarily wide appeal of the play and the way in which its core elements continuously lend themselves to new interpretation.

Sandra Clark is Professor Emerita of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her special interest is in Shakespeare and early modern drama and popular literature. She is the author of six books including Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2003), and an edition of Macbeth (with Pamela Mason) for The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (2015) and numerous articles and chapters in books. She is also the Series Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries.    W. Reginald Rampone, Jr is an alumnus of Washington and Lee University, Boston College, Brown University, and the University of Rhode Island, USA. He co-edited Much Ado About Nothing and The New Awareness (2024), with Professor Nicholas Utzig, Global King Lear: Crisis, Adaptation, Performance (2025) with Professor Eric Mallin, and Shakespeares Global Sonnets: Translation, Appropriation, Performance (2023) with Professor Jane Kingsley-Smith, and wrote Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare (2010).