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, ...

In the book’s defence, Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original. Overall though, it disappoints.

As a writer, Nesbø’s greatest strength by far is atmosphere, and in fairness to him he provides it here, convincingly setting his Macbeth (Hogarth Shakespeare, 446 pp., ★★ out of four) in ...

Book review: Queen Macbeth, by Val McDermid. By Allan Massie. Published 25th Apr 2024, 17:40 BST. Updated 26th Apr 2024, 08:51 BST. Val McDermid’s reimagining of the Macbeth story involves as ...

Book review: Revamped MacBeth gruelling, unrelenting. Author of the article: Joan Barfoot • Special to Postmedia News. Published May 04, 2018 • 3 minute read. Join the conversation .

This update is set in a dilapidated, drug-ridden town in 1970s Scotland. Macbeth himself is a senior policeman, strongly resembling a Scottish version of the author’s Norwegian sleuth, Harry Hole.

Sadly, little is actually known about Macbeth, and Watson’s book suffers for it. We are given a bare outline of his life: the noble Moray birth, the teenage battles (military rather than ...

Lally MacBeth’s attempt to chronicle of-the-people culture in detail is a treasure trove of both British folk memory and new ...

Between a new stage play and book — Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An Undoing) and Val McDermid’s Queen Macbeth — Lady M has finally gotten out of that damned spot.

A book on the Macbeth plot. I am a huge fan of the bard. He’s definitely top of my list of people on my fantasy dinner party, despite all the rumours- from authorship scandals to associations of ...