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Macbeth was about a man who commits multiple murders to be king and doesn't deserve it, same with Richard III Succession is a modern take on those themes by assuming that kings are inherently self-serving and corrupt, and everyone, without exception, who wanted to take over Waystar from Logan Roy was a terrible person The[...]

Macbeth was always my favourite Shakespeare Fantasy, politics of the royal court, murder, mystery, ghosts, stabbings, battles, knife-directed monologues, handwashing, and a comic porter, as well as a plot designed to flatter King James I or King James IV depending on where you live, and cement his divine right to rule over a united Scotland[...]

The Prague Shakespeare Company's version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth has proved the inspiration for Stewart Kenneth Moore's graphic novel version of Macbeth being published by Clover Press, along with Fishhead: The Art Of Ray Troll, in Clover's September 2022 solicitations, below – though both coming out in October.   TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH #1 (OF 2) CLOVER PRESS, LLC JUL221407 (W)[...]

David Tennant, arguably the most popular Doctor Who of this generation, plays Macbeth in BBC Radio 4's production It was kind of inevitable, really For every classically-trained actor, Shakespeare is the pinnacle, the top of a mountain to claim A tragedy of a man driven by ambition to commit murder, then finds his life empty[...]

The most recent example would have to be the gender-swapped The Tempest starring Dame Helen Mirren, but this next one sounds even more awesome. Joel Cohen is reportedly working on a version of the-play-that-must-not-be-named in the theatre (what? actors are almost a more superstitious lot than professional athletes), the "Scottish Play", aka Macbeth[...]

You can have your Romeo & Juliets and your Hamlets… for my money the best Shakespeare play and the one most deserving of a big screen adaptation is Macbeth A play about murder, betrayal, manipulation, insanity and supernatural forces… it has everything you need to make a blockbuster And now its getting a chance with[...]

Unlike Tony Soprano, who was born into organised crime and trying to live a middle-class family life, Walter White is a middle-class family man who becomes a gangster, a kind of fantasy that many people have, especially those who enjoy gangster stories. I'd been saying for years, since Season One, that this show was really "Macbeth[...]

But here's a brief look at last month's issue of The Boys, featuring our ever loveable Stan Lee analogue berating someone who appears to be a Jack Kirby substitute, in the manner of Macbeth to the dead Banquo… thought it was worth enjoying again. THE BOYS #68 32 pages FC  • $3.99  •  Mature Written by GARTH[...]