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" ...

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 ...

Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the most powerful tragedies ever written and it is story with a profound life lesson on how unbridled ambition and moral weakness can destroy a person’s life and lead ...

So full of bloodshed is "the Scottish play", it might easily be nicknamed MacDeath. It's odd, then, to find that in Gaelic, Macbeth means "son of life". Fiona Watson makes little of the apparent ...

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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 ...