Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Performed by Stephen Dillane as Macbeth, Fiona Shaw as Lady Macbeth, and full cast.

UNABRIDGED

Produced by Nicolas Soames

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 – probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who breaks the conventional strait jacket that has hampered the development of Shakespeare on audio. We are as much in the twenty-first century as in medieval Scotland – the tensions, the politics, the struggle for power and dark ambition is part of our lives... This is also reflected in the sound world, with modern machinery and tanks. Macbeth is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as used by the Royal Shakespeare Company and educational institutions across the world.

Music especially composed by Stephen Warbeck

3 CDs
Running Time: c.3½ hours
ISBN: 9-62634-162-9
Catalogue no: NA316212
US SRP: $22.98 / CANADA SRP: Can$29.95