Track | Act / Scene | Length |
01 | 01 - Macbeth - Act I Scene i | 1:01 |
02 | 02 - Macbeth - Act I Scene ii | 4:22 |
03 | 03 - Macbeth - Act I Scene iii | 8:11 |
04 | 04 - Macbeth - Act I Scene iv | 3:46 |
05 | 05 - Macbeth - Act I Scene v | 5:07 |
06 | 06 - Macbeth - Act I Scene vi | 2:17 |
07 | 07 - Macbeth - Act I Scene vii | 5:32 |
08 | 08 - Macbeth - Act II Scene i | 4:12 |
09 | 09 - Macbeth - Act II Scene ii | 5:17 |
10 | 10 - Macbeth - Act II Scene iii | 9:31 |
11 | 11 - Macbeth - Act II Scene iv | 2:59 |
12 | 12 - Macbeth - Act III Scene i | 8:10 |
13 | 13 - Macbeth - Act III Scene ii | 3:44 |
14 | 14 - Macbeth - Act III Scene iii | 1:46 |
15 | 15 - Macbeth - Act III Scene iv | 9:17 |
16 | 16 - Macbeth - Act III Scene v | 2:43 |
17 | 17 - Macbeth - Act III Scene vi | 3:11 |
18 | 18 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene i | 9:35 |
19 | 19 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene ii | 4:31 |
20 | 20 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene iii | 14:32 |
21 | 21 - Macbeth - Act V Scene i | 4:39 |
22 | 22 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene ii | 1:56 |
23 | 23 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene iii | 3:59 |
24 | 24 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene iv | 1:25 |
25 | 25 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene v | 3:13 |
26 | 26 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene vi | 0:47 |
27 | 27 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene vii | 2:00 |
28 | 28 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene viii | 2:01 |
29 | 29 - Macbeth - Act IV Scene ix | 2:53 |
Cast
Duncan – Joshua B. Christensen
Malcolm – mb
Donalbain – Ellis Christoff
Macbeth – Mark F. Smith
Banquo – Simon Larois
Macduff – John Lieder
Lennox – Mirza
Ross – Rosalind Wills
Menteith, Son of Macduff, and First
Apparition – David Lawrence
Angus, Second Apparition, and Third
Murderer – Annoying Twit
Caithness, Lord, Sergeant, and Soldiers – David Nicol
Fleance – Aaron Elliott
Siward – Brian Edwards
Young Siward, Gentlewoman – Laurie Anne Walden
Seyton, Old Man – Paul Williams
Lady Macbeth – Elizabeth Klett
Lady Macduff – LC
Hecate – Ruth Golding
First Witch – Jennifer Stearns
Second Witch – Kristin Hughes
Third Witch – Charlene V. Smith
Doctor – Eric M. Johnson
Servant and Attendant – Anna Simon
Porter – David Leeson
Third Apparition – Fionn Jameson
First Murderer – hefyd
Second Murderer – Anna Roberts
Messenger – Ezwa
Stage Directions – J. M. Smallheer
Audio edited by J. M. Smallheer
Notes
Running time: 3 hours and 28 minutes
Read by: Cast
Book Coordinator: Laurie Ann Walden
Meta Coordinator: Laurie Ann Walden
Proof Listener: Brian Edwards
Artwork
Cover: 'Macbeth seeing the ghost of Banquo' by Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856).
Inset: Poster of Thos. W. Keene in William Shakespeare's MacBeth, c. 1884.
Inset: Portrait of William Shakespeare known as the 'Chandos portrait' after a previous owner, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. Date 1610. Painter may be John Taylor.
Insert: 'Macbeth and the Witches' Painting by Francesco Zuccarelli. c. 1760.
Recordings
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The Tragedy of Macbeth dramatizes the consequences of the naked lust for power and political position. It is also about the devious workings of the mind: its willingness to believe and fulfill a prophecy, to see what it wants to see and overlook what it needs to overlook, and how the power of guilt and fear of retribution can lead to paranoia and desperate actions to remedy a consumptive insecurity.
We see Macbeth first as a hero, a general who has defeated an uprising by traitors and is rewarded by a grateful king with the title and property of one of the conspirators. The reward had been mysteriously forecast by The Three Witches he and colleague Banquo encountered, along with the prediction of his eventual kingship. He shares the prophecy with Lady Macbeth, who convinces him to fulfill the destiny immediately by scheming to kill King Duncan in his sleep and pin it on his chamberlains. They proceed and guilt, remorse, paranoia take over. Macbeth becomes a vicious tyrant, ruthlessly eliminating threats from rivals real and imagined. Lady Macbeth, wracked with guilt, sleepwalks, washing her hands and babbling her regrets before taking her own life. Macbeth seeks comfort in the further prophecies of the Three Witches but misinterprets their meanings and inevitably falls victim to the campaign of his avenging enemies Malcolm and Macduff. Double, double, toil and trouble, indeed.
Macbeth was written at about the time the Scottish King James VI ascended to the English throne as James I, and likely reflected uncertainty about England’s future in the hands of a king from its bloodied, traitorous northern neighbor. It also contains numerous allusion to the Gunpowder Plot of 1606, which resulted in the execution of Jesuit Henry Garnet for crimes of treason and equivocation. The play carries with it a superstition that its name not be mentioned aloud in the theatre, for fear of bad luck resulting from a curse by the witches, and is often called “the Scottish play” as a result.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134449 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700169925 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Box |
Author | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
Year | First performed - 1606 Published - 1623 |
Recording | |
Read by | Cast |
Length | 2 hours and 13 minutes |
Type of Reading | Dramatic |
The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Product Code: DB-1123
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