Mr. Karthaíos undertook the translation of `Macbeth` after persistent urging from Marika Kotopouli, and this is the first Shakespearean work that this unforgettable intellectual offered to our language. Since then, this translation has been revised six times with the exemplary conscientiousness, wise training, infallible judgment, and poetic talent of Mr. Karthaíos, to reach its final form, the one it has in the present edition. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]