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.

Besides Lady Macbeth marrying Macbeth at the beginning of the book, not much action actually ... that Morris did not allow himself to play with his words on a bigger scale.

Shakespeare's Macbeth is a play about the complexity of humans and the thin line between loyalty and betrayal. In March 2025, I was lucky enough to be chosen to go to Shakespeare's Globe to see a ...

The first is a stage play — Macbeth (An Undoing) — now on at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre. And there's Queen Macbeth, a book by Scottish writer Val McDermid. These two retellings of Macbeth ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic. The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed ...