Lady Macbeth is one of the most famous female villains in all of literary history. Yet, despite her infamy, her tale has glaring gaps and misrepresentations. For the uninitiated, Shakespeare's Macbeth ...

If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. In the beginning, Macbeth is manipulated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who encourages his ambition and ...

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 ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

Shakespeare gave the world the archetypal villainess in Lady Macbeth: an evil, over-ambitious, scheming harridan who coerced her husband into murdering his king and set both of them on the path to ...

On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...