MACBETH Shakespeare's last great tragedy has remained one of the most popular plays since its first performance in 1606
- probably in front of King James This exciting 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 21st century as in medieval Scotland
- the tensions the politics the struggle for power & dark ambition is part of our lives This is also reflected in the sound world with modern machinery & tanks MACBETH is part of Naxos Audio Books' exciting 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 & educational institutions across the world