Macbeth is, of course, killed by Macduff in the film’s closing battle, which replicates the fog and war-paint of the first battle. In an extended and symbolically charged struggle, Macduff kills ...

Macbeth himself is first seen as a steaming, heaving, near-alien warrior, his human countenance given up to smeary, demonic war paint. A carnal battle cry finally breaks the silence; the armies of ...

At the start of the play, he’s a war hero with conspicuous scruples ... in Joel Coen’s 2021 film “The Tragedy of Macbeth” paint vivid portraits of childless, death-haunted men with ...

Two years ago, I sat at a bar off a racetrack with Michael Fassbender and asked him, among other things, why he seemed drawn, over and over again, to characters that break bad—men who maybe want ...

The witches are the ones who inspire the chaos with their prophecy “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” But they also represent the victims of war: the noncombatants, the onlookers.

For Kulick, who is in the final month of a nearly 14-year tenure as artistic director of New York’s Classic Stage Co., the witches come to embody the ravages and brutality of war. (Macbeth ...

He heightens these classic texts and stories by including elements of hip-hop to bring these stories into a contemporary light Edwards described this production of Macbeth as blending a Shakespearean ...

These are just a few of the more hostile descriptors that Lady Macbeth has been saddled with ... take power and subsequently ignites a bloody civil war? Lady M is certainly no angel.

The Walled Garden will become a First World War rehabilitation centre, with a group of soldiers remembering lost comrades in a haunting adaptation of Macbeth. Witchcraft, manipulation and murder ...

Maddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. In God of War (2018), the ...