From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern definitive edition of Shakespeare's great drama
of ambition desire and guilt. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate this unique
edition presents a historical overview of Macbeth in performance takes a detailed look at
specific productions and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are three
interviews with leading directors - Rupert Goold Gregory Doran and Trevor Nunn - providing an
illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This
edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre and enables the
reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed
and performed. Ideal for students theatre-goers actors and general readers the RSC
Shakespeare editions offer a fresh accessible and contemporary approach to reading and
rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.
