Macbeth
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). 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 judgment 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. Now sit back and enjoy this lively performance, featuring the voices of award-winning actors Stephen Dillane (Macbeth) and Fiona Shaw (Lady Macbeth), accompanied by a full cast.
For more informative lectures about this work, don't miss A Study Guide to Macbeth.
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great play, skip over the music, September 02, 2009
Reviewer: bex
I wasn't crazy about the music used in this recording. Still, "Macbeth" is such a great play. Lady Macbeth is the real star of the play, and it's always fun to check out a performance "Macbeth", if only to see how the actress will handle that role.
- Published:
1998
- Original Year Of Publication:
1605
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
M000404
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