The Tragedy of Macbeth (commonly called Macbeth) is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime ...

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" ...

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 ...

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, ...

The legions of readers who adore the dark Scandinavian noir of Jo Nesbø will also love Macbeth, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play. OK, thank goodness that’s over. Now I can say without ...

Shakespeare gave the world the archetypal villainess in Lady Macbeth: an evil, over-ambitious, scheming harridan who coerced her husband into murdering his king and set both of them on the path to ...

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." ...

Somewhere in the world of book publishing, a bunch of editors is laughing. It’s dark, bleak laughter, of course, appropriate to those who dreamed up matching Jo Nesbo and his brutalist Scandinavian ...

Comic books might not be the first thing you associate with Shakespeare, but Ann Folino White, director and professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Theatre, might change your ...