Scotland’s only landlocked region is often overlooked by tourists heading deeper into the Highlands, but is riven with ...

But the real curse of “the Scottish play ... (Shakespeare subtly suggests that the witches’ prophecy inciting Macbeth is an echo of his own unconscious desires.). The witches erupt in ...

Loyal Macbeth knows that Banquo is loyal to King Duncan. He does not involve him in his plot to murder the king. In Shakespeare’s time, many people believed that witches were real. King James I ...

There's an old myth in the theater world that Shakespeare's Macbeth is cursed, and any theatre company who tries to put it on ...

The play follows the rise and fall of Macbeth, a once-valiant Scottish general who succumbs to the temptation of power after encountering three mysterious witches who prophesy his ascent to the ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ...