Download or read book Macbeth and the Players written by Dennis Bartholomeusz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is now considerable support for the view that a performance by an actor of genius can constitute a critical interpretation of a play and that only through such performance studies can a completely valid judgement about the play be made. In this paperback edition of a pioneering work, Dennis Bartholomeusz reconstructs from prompt copies, playbills and contemporary accounts, the major interpretations of the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth on the English stage from 1611 to the 1960s and relates the outstanding peformances of Burbage and Olivier, Siddons and Thorndike to the overall production history of Macbeth.