Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Themes are the main ideas that appear repeatedly in a play. Some of the important themes in Macbeth ...

In Shakespeare's time, the powers of evil were thought to be absolutely real; to most people Hell was an actual place and the Devil a constant threat to their souls. In particular there was a ...

We live in one of the most self-obsessed societies in history. So in Dram Tree Shakespeare's intense, exciting and occasionally over-the-top production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy "Macbeth," when ...

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" ...

It's five years since Melbourne Theatre Company staged Shakespeare – the ill-fated Queen Lear – leaving us starved for the Bard. It breaks the drought with this hotly anticipated Macbeth, directed by ...

There is a scene in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Macbeth involving a group of Scottish exiles on the English border lamenting the fate of their homeland. Their country has been turned into a tomb, full of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

Kathryn Hunter in The Tragedy of Macbeth, now playing in select ­theatres and streaming on Apple TV+ Jan. 14. COURTESY APPLE TV+/TNS Since 1906, there have been at least 17 film and TV productions of ...