Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
19 Rating(s)
List: $8.99 | Sale: $6.30
Club: $4.49

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Rafe Beckley

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”If you had the chance to seize great power for yourself and your family, what lengths would you go to to claim it as your own – and how would you live with yourself if you went against morality to do it? This is the question of Macbeth, a tragedy about seeking political gain above all else, and the consequences sacrificing one’s humanity for the sake of power.Macbeth is a general for Scotland who has been prophesied to be the future King of Scotland. Rather than wait for this prophecy to take hold of its own accord, and after taking the advice of his power-hungry wife, he murders the current king and takes his place. But it doesn’t take long for tremendous guilt and fear to take hold of him, and turn his reign into one of tyranny and brutality as he and Lady Macbeth commit more and more crimes to avoid the consequences coming for them. As Macbeth’s streak of brutality and war continues, he believes himself to be invulnerable, which ultimately leads to his downfall.Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s well-known tragedies, and despite superstitions about it being “cursed,” is still often performed and presented for audiences in the modern era.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on May 18, 2010

Don't you kind of hate how we've entered the decadent phase of Goodreads wherein perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the reviews written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now naked and unabashed in their variously effective attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky?......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on July 12, 2024

This play always holds a place in my heart and the top spot of most embarassing moments in my life. To be fair it was probably my fault as I’d never heard the superstition about not calling the “Scottish play” by name, and since it was my role I’d been shouting Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth all day. In fi......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 25, 2019

Macbeth is Shakespeare's darkest play not only because of the restricted palette of its images--shades of black varied with bright red blood--but also because, in the play's world of warfare and witchcraft, its hero is half-damned from the start. Inured to violence, prone to superstition, Macbeth st......more

Goodreads review by jessica on October 31, 2019

highlights of this play include, but are not limited to: - the witches! they are the original halloween qweens. they are serving some major spooky realness. also, they went and haunted a woman just because she wouldnt share her hazelnuts. that is the exact level of petty that i aspire to be. - lady m......more

Goodreads review by هدى on June 04, 2018

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing هذا في رأيي هو أفضل سطر كتب عن العدمية في التاريخ وهو السطر الذي استمد منه فولكنز عنوان روايته الشهيرة -الصخب والعنف هذا هو كتابي المفضل رقم (1)‏ وسيظل كذلك ما حييت نبوغ شكسبير لا يحتاج أحدا ليدلل عليه فأكيف بالله عليكم أحلل أو أناقش عملا له ل......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List