With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth.

While this isn't the first time Macbeth has inspired ... new audiences' interest in Hail Macbeth's source material. Don't get me wrong, I love a good book, but if I had been given a choice between ...

a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman’s Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that. Contact us at [email protected] ...

How much “Macbeth,” one might reasonably ask, does a viewer need? After all, we haven’t seen a major ... he gave perhaps his best performance, in Carol Reed’s “The Third Man.” ...