Jo Nesbo sets his retelling of Shakespeare’s blood-drenched tragedy about a power-hungry couple in a grim, unnamed Scottish town that’s fallen on hard times. Although the time is specified as the ...

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 ...

I don't know about the rest of the Hogarth Shakespeare series of "rewrites" of the Bard's plays except that Margaret Atwood has done The Tempest. That said, the selection of Jo Nesbo, master of ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

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