Macbeth

Shakespeare, William

ISBN 10: 0694515841 / ISBN 13: 9780694515844

Published by Harperaudio, 1996

About this Item

2 pages. 5.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 0694515841

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Macbeth
• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0694515841
• ISBN 13: 9780694515844
• Binding: Audio CD
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.11 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Wherethe Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare onCompact Disc series. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloomaccompanies the CD.

About the Authors

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.

During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross.

In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his.