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Publication Details: Published in 1978 by the University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California / London, England). The full number line (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) confirms this copy is a First Edition, First Printing.
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About the Book: This massive 800+ page scholarly work is widely considered a benchmark in Shakespearean performance criticism. Instead of treating Macbeth strictly as literature on a page, Rosenberg examines how the play lives on the stage, analyzing hundreds of historical stage productions, actor interpretations, line deliveries, and directorial choices across four centuries.
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Interesting Fact: To test audience reactions without preconceptions, Rosenberg staged three live workshop productions of Macbeth specifically for "naive" audiences—viewers who had never read or seen Shakespeare's tragedy before. He used their raw, instinctive reactions to demonstrate how Shakespeare naturally built empathy for two violent murderers.
