This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady Macbeth and that damned spot.

But Lady Macbeth is worried her husband is “too full of the milk of human kindness” to act, that he isn’t man enough to do it. She pushes, manipulates and belittles him.

So far this year, I have seen Shakespeare productions that had a disco theme or were in modern dress or set in a 1960s ...

Lady Macbeth is a wholly underrated villain, and character, in general. She’s in a league way above her Shakespearean contemporaries; she isn’t whiney like Juliet and Ophelia, she’s bold ...

The beauty of "Lady Macbeth" — a function both of Birch's well-observed script and of Oldroyd's dispassionate direction — is that it allows for elements of both interpretations.

Lady Macbeth’s descent into guilt-ridden madness has always felt a little underwritten, and Farber’s most striking intervention is to remedy this, with Ronan’s considerable help.

Marion Cotillard always knew she would end up playing Lady Macbeth, but she never thought it would be in a movie -- or in English. She stars in the latest film version of the Scottish Play, which ...

Even if Lady Macbeth appears in substantially fewer scenes than her husband, her cunning mind — and Negga’s command of Shakespeare’s verse — leave an indelible imprint.