May 17, 2007
Shakespeares Macbeth Spoken Word Audio Books
Macbeth
Written By - William Shakespeare
Narrated By - Full Cast Production
Published By - NAXOS
Runtime - 2 hours 20 minutes
Categories - Shakespeare
Download Price - $14.99
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Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in Macbeth Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king. Part of the writer's triumph is to succeed in making Macbeth, whose crime we must detest, a man in whom we must also see something of our own darker side, our own potential for evil, so that Malcolm's final judgement on him as a mere 'butcher' seems wholly inadequate, the verdict of someone who does not share the audience's insight into Macbeth's anguished inner world.
Macbeth
Written By - William Shakespeare
Narrated By - Full Cast Production
Published By - Harper Collins US
Runtime - 2 hours 11 minutes
Categories - Shakespeare
Download Price - $25.00 $12.95
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— Macbeth
Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but
fascinating glimpse into the soul of evil. Set in medieval Scotland in an atmosphere of civil unrest and mutual suspicion, Macbeth probes the intellectual,as well as the emotional consequences of unbridled ambition and the cold-blooded murder it engenders. In the title character and his wife and accomplice, Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare conceived as complex and eloquent a pair of villains as have ever been created in the English language.
Macbeth
Written By - William Shakespeare
Narrated By - Full Cast Production
Published By - BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime - 1 hour 50 minutes
Categories - Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Shakespeare
Audio Theater
Download Price - $10.99
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. The poetic richness of the language in "the Scottish play" is enhanced through the medium of radio to bring new depths of anguish to the tortured reasonings of Macbeth and his wife.
The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre, and the accompanying booklet includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, brief biographies of the leading actors and of Shakespeare himself, as well as an essay from the producer on their interpretation of the play.
Revitalised, original and comprehensive - this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
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