Considered to be one of the last Gaelic kings, the real Macbeth MacFindlaech wasn’t the murderous, terrible character of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. In reality, Macbeth became Earl ...
When three mysterious strangers confront a noble general on a barren heath, the fate of a nation is changed forever. Ambition, power, and madness drive Shakespeare's thrilling masterpiece, Macbeth, ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The festival’s choice this year was among the more arcane: Macbeth in a critical edition of the now-standard 1865 ...