Near the end of Act I of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, Macbeth contemplates the price that may be paid for his unchecked ambition and lust for power: “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but ...

So it was a dagger I saw before me - Max Bennett as Macbeth Max Bennett gives us a (literally) bewitched Macbeth who becomes intoxicated with the prospect of seizing power. Given what conmen call a ...

Denzel Washington, at his magnificent best, looms like a colossus as Macbeth. Joel Coen’s triumphant film of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which just opened the New York Film Festival on its way to Apple ...

In a genius move at the behest of both director Simon Godwin and Ralph Fiennes, the drama of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Macbeth starts long before the action. A first view of the production’s ...

Joel H. Morris’s newest book, “All Our Yesterdays,” adds yet another narrative to the long history of Shakespeare retellings. “All Our Yesterdays” is set ten years before the plot of Shakespeare’s ...

This feels like a Macbeth for the digital age, one perfectly tailored for fans of its star David Tennant. It’s stylish, evocative – and slightly distancing. But never for a moment can you tear your ...

“Macbeth” is littered with casualties — and not only on the fictional battlefield. The tragedy has taken down a battalion of the finest directors and actors, who have fallen victim to the play’s real ...

Orson Welles’ horror-tinged, loose adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies returns to Blu-ray in Macbeth: Special Edition (Kino Lorber, not rated, 119 minutes, 1:33:1 aspect ratio, ...

Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, and it tells the story of ruthless ambition that spurs a chain of murders. When Scottish general Macbeth is visited by three witches, or “weird sisters,” who ...