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" ...

The lady of the house is a prisoner. Born poor, the teenager came to her position though a forced marriage, to a man clearly unsuitable to companionship. The environment of the surrounding 19th ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his ...

Based on Nikolai Leskov’s Dostoevsky-commissioned novel Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, its 1865 setting is transferred from Tsarist Russia to Northumberland. Little of the isolated, feudal oppression is ...

Newcomer Florence Pugh makes quite an impression in “Lady Macbeth,” the downright wicked retelling of Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella. With quiet menace, Pugh chews through director William Oldroyd’s ...

In many ways “Lady Macbeth” is remarkable for what it isn’t. It isn’t a staid period drama. It isn’t romantic. It isn’t predictable. And it certainly isn’t comfortable. It takes a while to grasp just ...

In the opening shots of “Lady Macbeth,” a bride (Florence Pugh) gazes upward through the mist of her veil, looking lovely, quietly curious and very young. In its final shots, she sits on a ...

Director William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth sounds as though it’s an adaptation from another William–Shakespeare, that is. Rather, it’s based on an 1865 Russian novella by Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of ...

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 ...