ACT ONE: The opera takes place in Scotland and begins in a forest. Macbeth and Banquo, two Scottish generals in King Duncan's army, stop to visit with coven of witches. (In Shakespeare's play, there ...

Considered to be one of the last Gaelic kings, the real Macbeth MacFindlaech wasn’t the murderous, terrible character of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. In reality, Macbeth became Earl ...

Dr Alex Woolf works for the University of St Andrews. He received an AHRC grant to work on his book from Pictland to Alba which covers, inter alia, the MacBeth story. He is a member of the Scottish ...

The Old Globe’s production, on the outdoor festival stage, has no answer. Jonathan Cake’s high-pitched, over-e-NUN-ciating Macbeth comes off as a skittish Hamlet impersonator rather than the vile Scot ...

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Can you guess what is running now through May 4 at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company? It's one of the most enduring curses in the theatre realm, but it also happens to be one of Shakespeare's most famous ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. In the beginning, Macbeth is manipulated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who encourages his ambition and ...

I.ONE PHASE OF MACBETH’S CHARACTER. THERE is one person in that world which Shakespeare has made known to us whose utterances are especially marked by the fine charm of true poetry. From his lips drop ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are the main characters and their ambition and eventual ...