Macbeth has remained one of William Shakespeare's most intense and often performed plays. The play follows the progress of the title character as he becomes increasingly powerful, using any means to ...

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 ...

Apart from The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, a tragedy of errors, is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays. At only 2,107 lines it is barely half the length of Hamlet, with which it is often compared. The ...

It’s one of Shakespeare’s most revered and controversial tragedies, a play loosely based on the life and times of medieval Scottish king Mac Bethad mac Findlaech (Macbeth) via the late-1500s' British ...

Expect tense and disturbing moments in this psychological thriller rendition of Shakespeare's most popular tragedy. The English Touring Theatre has arrived at the Old Vic with a two-hour production ...

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 ...