Rising star Florence Pugh has admitted that she found her nude scenes in dark new period drama Lady Macbeth ‘difficult’ to shoot but ‘beautiful’ to watch back . The British actress, 21, won the Evening Standard Breakthrough Award last year for her ...

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 downfall is key to the storyline. Lady Macbeth manipulates ...

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William Oldroyd’s astoundingly assured debut Lady Macbeth may be devoid of any Shakespearean lineage, but this unconventional Victorian chamber piece is just as scintillating as its Scottish namesake. Shrewdly adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains disturbing and unusual events, including the murder of a king ...

Raven Books has landed Lady Macbethad, a historical novel exploring the "real Lady Macbeth" set in medieval Scotland, and a second title by debut author Isabelle Schuler. Katie Ellis-Brown, editorial director of the Bloomsbury imprint, acquired world all ...

It is a profound loss for opera that Shostakovich’s dramatic career was brusquely truncated after Stalin took exception to the young Russian composer’s second work, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, as decadent and “anti-Soviet”. Narrowly escaping being ...