This impeccably researched, detailed book has much to offer to anyone studying, teaching, directing or taking part in what is probably Shakespeare's best known play.

Ink Pellet

Offers a rich compendium of examples, providing both a resource for and an invitation to readers and researchers to explore further themselves.

Shakespeare Survey

Carroll's net is cast wide and there are chapters on the novel, global and racial Macbeths, as well as musical versions. Stage and cinematic adaptations figure throughout. Geographically, the range is impressive-no fewer than thirty different countries are mentioned … [Carroll] has a fluent grasp of this play's multitudinous reincarnations. This elegant study will surely become a model of condensation and explication of the continuing cultural presence of Shakespeare's apparently immortal literary artefacts.

Adaptation

Wonderfully readable, insightful, informative, generously open in approach, and inspiring … Carroll makes the collective stories associated with Macbeth feel richer than the single story, important and powerful as it is, offered by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Studies