ABSTRACT
This paper (or so its title suggests) poses a plurality of speculations against a presumed singleness of source; it glances, thereby, at a dispersal of origins. Source – in its heterogeneity – is its concern, aimed ultimately at locating Shakespeare's relation to Macbeth. But, it can be assumed, there is no immediate path to the author as source of the text except through a relay of mediations, and, by the end, even the supposed ultimate source – the author – must be considered within a heterogeneous dispersal. 1
