Macbeth (Caedmon Shakespeare)

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

"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.