The legions of readers who adore the dark Scandinavian noir of Jo Nesbø will also love Macbeth, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play. OK, thank goodness that’s over. Now I can say without ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth (commonly called Macbeth) is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime ...

Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbo’s latest novel, Macbeth, is the seventh book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which eight bestselling novelists each re-tell one of Shakespeare’s popular plays.

Shakespeare's “something wicked this way comes” (Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1) is the banner under which all crime fiction marches. The actual line does not appear in Jo Nesbø’s re-imagining of the ...

WITH his sharp eye for a good plot and his relish for blood and gore, Shakespeare would be writing crime fiction if he was alive today – or so many crime writers say. So it seems appropriate that mega ...

When James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, the theatre-loving monarch appointed a trendy London company to the office of King’s Men. Its principal writer may have been ambivalent about ...