Macbeth kills King Duncan and becomes King of Scotland. Image caption, Macbeth has Banquo murdered. Macbeth remembers what the Witches said about Banquo’s sons becoming kings of Scotland.

Macbeth then became king of Alba, uniting the two provinces and creating the basis for what we now think of as modern Scotland. He was not, as in Shakespeare, a tyrant removed from the throne ...

In the dark tragedy of Shakespeare’s Macbeth the maligned medieval Scottish king and his queen Gruoch can claim the deepest wounds. For 400 years audiences have watched witches torture the ...

Audiences have been spoiled for starry productions of Macbeth recently. Saoirse Ronan chose to make her London stage debut as Lady Macbeth in Yael Farber’s take on the Scottish play in 2021 ...

The truth is that if Macbeth had even a fraction of Hamlet’s philosophical turn of mind he never would have killed the king. But there’s an upside to Fiennes’ approach.

Macduff kills Macbeth. Malcolm becomes Scotland’s king. This is the stuff of great drama, thick with psychological import, mad acts of violence, and the fog of war.

"Macbeth's in his prime, is at the top of his game, [whereas Lady Macbeth is perceived as past hers]. 400 years later, there's still a bit of that – we start to find women invisible.