If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re ...

By Olly Francis, Second Year Theatre and Performance. It feels almost unnecessary to give a synopsis of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Every person who has been through the Brit ...

Generally, with William Shakespeare film adaptations there are two ways to approach critical analysis, either by how well it adapts the Bard's play or how well it recontextualizes it. In both ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The Weinstein Company has released the first ...

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, ...

A bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare’s thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses. By Laura Collins-Hughes What a team player Macbeth is at the start. On the ...

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth ...

Pretty much everyone knows the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth. (If you don't, I'm not going to explain it to you — that's what Sparknotes are for.) Not only did we all read it for school at some point, ...