Marion Gibson receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. “Out, damned spot,” Lady Macbeth famously says as she wrings her hands, attempting to remove a bloodstain her guilt-ridden mind has conjured.

Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere six years after Justin Kurzel directed Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard ...

“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 ...

1. Macbeth died on August 15, 1057, 17 years to the day since becoming King after being fatally wounded at the battle at Lumphanan. 2. In 1050, Macbeth became the first Scottish king known to make a ...

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Macbeth issues a warning: the greatest risk to the inner life comes from the delusion that it does not exist. “A little ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. At the start of the play, Banquo is Macbeth’s friend and is also a general in King Duncan’s army.

With the excellent David Tennant and Cush Jumbo as Shakespeare’s murderous couple, this show promptly sold out its whole run at the 251-seat Donmar. If you didn’t get tickets, take comfort: a ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair", "Is this a dagger which I see before me?", "Out damned spot!", "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble ...

The production, playing on London’s West End, had to close its doors once again, leaving ticket holders disappointed. On November 1, the Harold Pinter Theatre announced on social media that the ...

For those of us not in the film industry, the words “on location” are steeped in glamour. For the cast of the new film adaptation of Macbeth, the notion of glamour is probably not at the top of their ...

1. August 15 may also be the day on which he became King after his forces killed King Duncan near Elgin probably on August 14, 1040. 2. Shakespeare’s play, ending in Macbeth’s death, takes place over ...