Val McDermid’s reimagining of the Macbeth story involves as daring a trick as anything Shakespeare provided for the theatre, ...

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

Four centuries on, his influence echoes through not only stage and screen, but also in the pages of novels that reimagine, ...

Thirty of William Shakespeare's "underwritten" female characters speak their mind in a new book of speeches by English ...

The latest production of the William Shakespeare tragedy – which stars Tennant as Macbeth and Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth – concluded its West End run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in December, with a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich’s failure to write more operas. After Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ...