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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.