Everyone knows what has long been the story of Macbeth as presented to us in Shakespeare’s play. Now, in this latest volume in Polygon’s Darkland Tales series, Val McDermid tells it differently.

We were reading Macbeth. Mr. ... In just this way, I believe in the freedom to see literature, history, truth, unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.

Get your daggers ready, friends: The homicidally ambitious Macbeth and his wife, plus the frightening trio of witches who steer their fates, are headed back to movie screens.

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 ...

Macbeth's city is a world unto itself and the peak of power is police commissioner, currently held by the honourable and revered Duncan. Nesbo also doesn't bother with dates. It's vaguely the 1970s.

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the ... She and other Inklings staffers review books in this space every week.

In Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” a film starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Kathryn Hunter manages to outshine her co-stars as all three witches in the excellent, eerie ...

Between a new stage play and book — Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An Undoing) and Val McDermid’s Queen Macbeth — Lady M has finally gotten out of that damned spot.

A spine-chilling experience will take place at Reading Central Library this week when theatre-goers are invited to a thrilling outdoor performance of Macbeth.