Macbeth is a spooky horror story set in Scotland. There are gory bits. There are witches and spooky visions. Macbeth and his wife commit so many horrible crimes that towards the end even Lady Macbeth ...

Jo Nesbo sets his retelling of Shakespeare’s blood-drenched tragedy about a power-hungry couple in a grim, unnamed Scottish town that’s fallen on hard times. Although the time is specified as the ...

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." ...

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 ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. It’s dark, bleak laughter, ...

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" ...

Val McDermid’s reimagining of the Macbeth story involves as daring a trick as anything Shakespeare provided for the theatre, writes Allan Massie This site is ...

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 ...

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 disturbing ...

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." ...