Shakespeare on Stage and Screen

The seduction of a successful war-hero by the powers of evil, his growing ambition and a domineering wife, his rise to supreme power and his final downfall, the destruction of order and its apparent restoration, the horrors of tormented souls, haunted by their conscience, the psycho-analysis of a criminal couple; all of this expressed in an unsurpassed language of fascinating images …
These are the main aspects of the present selection of 19 essential passages from the tragedy of Macbeth, often considered to be the prime example of a Shakespearean tragedy and an all-time classic in schools and universities.