It’s the greatest treatise on bloodthirsty ambition ever written. Shakespeare’s Macbeth kills his king for his crown and then everyone else who crosses his path before being inevitably felled himself.

The Hogarth Shakespeare series has been having a little fun with the Bard in recent years, reimagining the plays for a 21st-century audience. The latest edition is a retelling of Macbeth by Jo Nesbo, ...

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The Aussie auteur discusses turning Michael? Fassbender into Macbeth, Marion ?Cotillard’s 'aura' and why he’s attracted to dark material. By Rebecca Ford It’s been 10 years since Justin Kurzel first ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga star in Sam Gold’s oddly uneasy take on the Scottish play. By Jesse Green Macbeth, the character, is full of compunction, ...

There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who ...

Denzel Washington. Frances McDormand. Joel Coen. William Shakespeare. I could probably stop my review right there and you’d already want to see the movie with a two-time Oscar winner working with the ...