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"...All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."
— 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.

This hard to find audio edition of Macbeth is by far the best I have heard to date. I love the Arkangel Shakespeare, but this Modern Library cannot be topped. Dennis Quilley is not only convincing, but he speaks his lines as if he loves each one of them. He speaks Shakespeare like someone who has discovered him for the first time. Shakespeare has been done, and overdone. Actors always attempt something new, and forget altogether the power, the naked power of transparency in a voice, achieved only in submission to the greatness of the lines. That, and an absolute deep love for each word in them.