I'm planning to go to New York in September, so I thought, 'I absolutely have to go to the Metropolitan Opera (MET)!' and ...

If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re in for a more intriguing reality. The historical woman often linked to that ...

Her character is sympathetic at the start of the movie and sociopathic by the end, but Pugh's genius is that she never changes a thing. There aren’t very many words spoken in William Oldroyd’s “Lady ...

One of the most welcome trends in publishing in recent years has been its embrace of feminist retellings of classic literature, stories that reimagine famous works from female perspectives or that ...

Lady Macbeth is one of the most famous female villains in all of literary history. Yet, despite her infamy, her tale has glaring gaps and misrepresentations. For the uninitiated, Shakespeare's Macbeth ...

Shakespeare's murderous queen has long been demonised as a wicked seductress. Yet Frances McDormand is the latest actor to show she deserves far more understanding, writes Hanna Flint. Seductress.