Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Love Story

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Is Shakespeare's darkest tragedy a cautionary tale about ambition? a bit of Jacobean mythmaking?  Or is it the portrait of a deeply committed marriage gone catastrophically wrong?

With apologies for all the appalling accents . . . .

Performance Clip: Macbeth with Orson Welles, Fay Bainter, and the Mercury Acting Co.  Mercury Text Records.  From the Internet Archive (archive.org)

Additional Music: "The Rout of Moy" perf. Albannach.  2006.  From the Internet Archive (archive.org)

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