下記のリストは授業中に扱う予定の批評群。概観するだけのものと詳しく読むものが混在しています。
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Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland (1587)
Newes from Scotland (1591)
William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part One (c.1590)
James VI and I, Basilicon Doron (1599)
Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)
Samuel Johnson, Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of ‘Macbeth’: with Remarks on Sir T. H.’s Edition of Shakespeare (1745)
Thomas De Quincey, ‘On the Knocking on the Gate in “Macbeth” ’ (1823)
A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1904)
L. C. Knights, ‘How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth? An Essay in the Theory and Practice of Shakespeare Criticism (1933)
Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)
John Holloway, The Story of the Night: Studies in Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies (1961)
Joan Larsen Klein, ‘Lady Macbeth: “Infirm of Purpose”' (1980)
Jenijoy La Belle, ‘ “A Strange Infirmity”: Lady Macbeth’s Amenorrhea’ (1980)
Stephen Booth, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy (1983)
Barbara Everett, Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare’s Tragedies (1989)
Harriett Hawkins, Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres (1990)
Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest (1992)
Stephen Greenblatt, ‘Shakespeare Bewitched’ (1994)
David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare after Theory (1999)