Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's Summary

From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read, performed in innovative productions set in a vast array of times and locations, from Nazi Germany to Revolutionary Cuba. Macbeth is a distinguished warrior hero, who over the course of the play, transforms into a brutal, murderous villain and pays an extraordinary price for committing an evil act. A man consumed with ambition and self-doubt, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most vital meditations on the dangerous corners of the human imagination. 

Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are 17 and another when we are 40, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding - over the course of his own lifetime - of this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.

©2019 Harold Bloom (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Poor narrartor

Harold Bloom is always a provocative and compelling author. But its nearly ruined here because the narrator doesn't amend his voice for quotations. So you have no idea when it's Bloom talking or when he's quoting dialogue. Annoying. Not much of an actor.