Kenneth Muir was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University from 1951-1974. He edited a wide array of Shakespeare's plays, including King Lear, Othello, Richard II, and Troilus and Cressida.?His books include Shakespeare as Collaborator, Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence, and Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen.
Muir's introduction to Macbeth delves first into the history of the text itself, including notes on the first printings and when they were produced.?Next, the editor analyzes the Porter scene and other portions of the play that have raised the question of its authorship.잸 discussion of the play's sources precedes Muir's edition of the play itself.?The book includes four appendices: "Holinshed," "Bucganan," "Leslie," and additional notes from the 1984 reissue of this text.?A list of abbreviations used also appears.
Simon Greaves is a writer, illustrator and yurt maker. Before creating the Shakespeare Comic Book Series, he was a part-time teacher, house renovator, full time dad and is a keen cyclist. He is married with two grown-up children. Previous to Shakespeare Comic Books, he wrote a series of books on grammar and punctuation for Harper Collins and English as a Foreign Language titles for Orient Press. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
