Macbeth is a gripping drama which describes the progressive corrosion of a man’s personality as the result of his choice of evil in furthering his own ambition. This new edition in The Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeared by two of the world’s foremost Elizabethan authorities. As in the other volumes in this distinguished new series, the text is printed on right-hand pages only and all notes are placed on the pages facing the text they explain. The text is also illustrated from contemporary sources.