Ahead of her anticipated debut this week on Law & Order: Organized Crime, Jennifer Beals teases “there’s a little Lady Macbeth happening” when it comes to her character as the wife of drug kingpin ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth is both a dramatic portrayal of a famous Shakespearean character and a self-portrait. This ...

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" ...

In the latest addition to the ever-expanding cinema of Shakespeare, Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play the Bard's scheming Scottish Lord and Lady. Designing for black-and-white meant Zophres ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...