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How much do you know about Shakespeare’s play Macbeth? This section takes you step by step through the play, helping you to identify key plot points.
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains ...
Many films have been made of "Macbeth" — probably less than "Hamlet" and more than "The Tempest" and "Othello" — and doubtless they'll still be made to the last syllable of recorded time.
“All Our Yesterdays” is set ten years before the plot of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” The work hones in on the perspectives of Lady Macbeth and her son from before her marriage to Macbeth, ...
In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence.At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The best ...
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 sorcery to plagiarism, Sh ...
Something wicked this way comes — and it's ready to put a dagger in your heart. The new U.S. trailer for "Macbeth" has just debuted, and it's a blood-soaked, intense, martial thing of beauty.
Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s best characters, but Negga, far from the center of the play, barely leaves a mark. Together, she and Craig have no spark.
Note: The following column discusses plot points of “Macbeth,” which is a play written over 400 years ago, so they’re not spoilers.
“Macbeth in Stride” sometimes poses its what-do-you-want question more bluntly than is optimal, and it skates over plot points (for example, Banquo’s ghost) in a way that might confuse an ...