TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Series
About this Volume
List of Illustrations
Introduction 1
Macbeth 21
1 Representations of Macbeth 115
From A History of Greater Britain 126
From History of Scotland 128
From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland 135
From Book of Plays 153
From The Witch 155
From "The Story of Macbeth," in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories 159
From Macbeth, A Tragedy 162
Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco 178
2 Discourses of Sovereignty 185
From A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England 191
From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference 201
From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference 203
From Succession Act 205
From Basilikon Doron 211
From The True Law of Free Monarchies 213
From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall 217
From Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings 220
From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing 227
From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise 228
From A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602 230
3 Treason and Resistance 231
From A Short Treatise of Politic Power 237
From An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion 238
From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland 242
From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants 244
Report to the Doge and Senate 256
From A Speech to Parliament 261
From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet 265
From A Treatise of Equivocation 266
From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England 268
4 The Cultural Construction of Scotland 271
From The Description of Scotland 280
Henry V, Act I, Scene 2 286
From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms 288
From An Itinerary 290
From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland 293
From The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation 296
5 Witchcraft and Prophecy 300
From The Discovery of Witchcraft 307
From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts 311
News from Scotland 313
From Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue 325
An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits 328
From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies 335
From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies 336
From The Discovery of Witchcraft 337
From A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft 338
From Of Prognostications 341
From Of Prophecies 342
6 Discourses of the Feminine 344
From The Discovery of Witchcraft 352
From The Method of Physic 353
From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother 354
From The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass 357
From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man 361
From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery 364
From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women 366
Bibliography 369
Index 381