Mr. Karthaíos took on the translation of Macbeth after persistent encouragement from Marika Kotopouli, and this is the first Shakespearean work that unforgettable intellectual contributed to our language.

Since then, this translation has been refined six times with the exemplary conscientiousness, wise training, infallible judgment, and poetic talent of Mr. Karthaíos, to reach its definitive form, which it has in this current edition.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]