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 ...

While the restrained staging invited intimacy and allowed the supporting cast’s arias to shine, the production often faltered under its own minimalism.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Themes are the main ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's five years since Melbourne Theatre Company staged Shakespeare – the ill-fated Queen Lear – leaving us starved for the Bard. It ...