Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

History of Art professor Alexander Nemerov’s new book, “Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War,” begins on the stage of a performance of “Macbeth” on Oct. 17, 1863 in Washington, ...

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Steve Rowell didn't mean to hang onto Walton Central School District's copy of "Macbeth" for 50 years. But, as Lady Macbeth says in the tragedy written by William Shakespeare, "What's done is done." ...

Shakespeare gave the world the archetypal villainess in Lady Macbeth: an evil, over-ambitious, scheming harridan who coerced her husband into murdering his king and set both of them on the path to ...

I don't know about the rest of the Hogarth Shakespeare series of "rewrites" of the Bard's plays except that Margaret Atwood has done The Tempest. That said, the selection of Jo Nesbo, master of ...

Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbo’s latest novel, Macbeth, is the seventh book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which eight bestselling novelists each re-tell one of Shakespeare’s popular plays.

WITH his sharp eye for a good plot and his relish for blood and gore, Shakespeare would be writing crime fiction if he was alive today – or so many crime writers say. So it seems appropriate that mega ...

When James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, the theatre-loving monarch appointed a trendy London company to the office of King’s Men. Its principal writer may have been ambivalent about ...