Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Hertford College. She has published widely on Shakespeare and her work This is Shakespeare (2019) was a Sunday Times Bestseller. She has worked with theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, participated in radio programmes including Radio 3's Sunday Feature and Radio 4's In Our Time, and served as a consultant for TV and film. She is the General Editor for the Oxford World's Classics editions of the New Oxford Shakespeare.
John Jowett is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is the General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare with particular responsibility for the original-spelling Critical Reference edition. He is General Editor for the ongoing Arden Early Modern Drama, a parallel series to the Arden Shakespeare that publishes non-Shakespearian drama of the early modern period.

• General Editors' Preface to The New Oxford Shakespeare


• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• Select Bibliography


• MACBETH

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.