¨The Voyager Macbeth is divided into ten sections. Each section is arranged like a small book, with its own table of contents and pagination. This help topic describes the contents of each section and explains that section’s individual interactive features.• The INTRODUCTION section contains three items: “Opening Remarks,” which is an illustrated preface read by David Rodes; “About the Royal Shakespeare Company Production,” which discusses the performance whose audio accompanies the play; and the “Introductory Essay,” which gives a more detailed overview of the dramatic, historical, and critical issues that have gathered around the play. • CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY contains a list of all the speaking parts in Macbeth. Each page in this section briefly describes a character in terms of his or her role in the action, and supplies the following additional information: – The total number of scenes in which the character appears, with a list of those scenes.– The character’s total number of speeches and lines.– An interactive scene–by–scene list of the speeches: To go directly to the page of the play on which the speech begins, click the entry.– An interactive first line index to the character’s speeches: To view the first line of each speech and the accompanying line number, click the “Index to First Lines” button at the foot of the page. To go directly to the page of the play in which a line appears, click the entry in the window.• THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH contains the text of Shakespeare’s play as edited by A. R. Braunmuller. Annotations provide comments on both the meaning of the text and issues of performance. The audio of a complete performance of the play by the Royal Shakespeare Company is available in this section; additionally, some scenes are linked to clips from other performances. – To listen to the performance of Macbeth, click on any word in the dialogue. If that line is available in the Royal Shakespeare Company production, the performance will begin, starting from the line of text on which you clicked. – To stop the performance, click on the text again. Several scenes in the play are also linked to clips from various film versions of Macbeth. These links are indicated by a film strip button in the gray patterned area on the left side of the page. – To jump to the corresponding scene in the Clips Gallery, click the film strip button. – To go back, click “Return to the Play.” The text of the play is annotated. Some annotations are indicated by gray underlines; others by dagger symbols in the margin. Underlined areas typically annotate a word or short phrase, while daggers annotate longer passages. – To view an annotation, click a dagger or underlined word. – To hide the annotation, click the annotation panel. – To move the annotation window, hold the mouse down and drag the window to the desired location. – To hide or show Annotation markings, choose Annotations from the Macbeth menu, or click Annotations on the Tools palette. For more details, see the “How Annotations Work” help topic.• The SUMMARIES AND COMMENTARIES section provides a scene-by-scene precís of the play, commentaries on each act and scene by David Rodes, and selected responses to the commentaries by A. R. Braunmuller. This section also contains the commentaries on each of the film clips in the “Clips Gallery” section, written by Michael E. Cohen.• The ESSAYS section provides essays by A. R. Braunmuller on topics related to Macbeth. The section includes a biography of Shakespeare, discussions of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater and theatrical practice, a performance history, detailed stylistic and textual analyses, and more. This section also contains extracts from Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, a work that provided Shakespeare with much of the material in Macbeth.• The CLIPS GALLERY explores important cinematic adaptations of Macbeth by providing excerpts from the work of three prominent filmmakers: Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, and Orson Welles. Commentaries for each clip provide insight into the particular choices each director made as he created his personal vision of Macbeth. To start or stop the film clip, click the video window or the adjoining text. For more details on viewing the clips see the “Video and Audio Presentations” help topic.• The PICTURE GALLERY offers a small sample of the available visual materials related to Macbeth and to Shakespeare:– The Picture Collection contains over 80 images, including portraits of historical personages, artistic renderings of various scenes in the play, contemporary woodcuts depicting witches and witchcraft, and many other images related to the play.– The Map of Scotland allows you to explore the setting of the Tragedy of Macbeth. You can tour a map of Scotland and get information about key locations in Scotland from a pop-up menu. For more information, see the help topic “Using the Maps.”– The Map of Shakespeare’s London allows you to see the layout of London in Shakespeare’s time. Significant landmarks related to Shakespeare’s life and works, such as the Globe Theater, the Blackfriars Theater and the Mermaid Tavern are available from a pop-up menu. See the help topic “Using the Maps.”• The CONCORDANCE AND TEXTUAL MATTERS section provides several research tools useful for stylistic and textual analyses of Macbeth.The Concordance contains a complete index to all words spoken in the play; totals of how many times each word is used; and provides active listings of each reference. – To see a text window listing all occurrences of a word in context, click on any word in the Concordance. – To go directly to the page in the play on which the line appears, click any entry in the window. The Collation records the significant editorial choices made while preparing this edition of Macbeth, and compares them to the “First Folio” of 1623, which contains the earliest printed copy of the play, and to other major editions. The Relineation documents the line-break variations between editions, which are important in discussions of Macbeth as a dramatic verse poem. The Concordance can also be searched, and the Collation and Relineation can be viewed, via the Research Tools button on the Tools palette. For more information, see the help topic, “The Research Tools.”• The SUGGESTED READINGS section provides you with a list of works you may wish to consult for further exploration of Macbeth and other works by William Shakespeare.• The MACBETH KARAOKE allows you to play two scenes from Macbeth opposite actors Lisa Harrow and Robert Thaler. 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