Macbeths

I usually catch two or three "Macbeths" a season, but more than two years have gone by since I last saw "The Winter's Tale" on stage.

Get Thee to New Jersey 2008

There's no shortage of Macbeths around at the moment, the play taking on a new pertinence with so many dictatorships wobbling around the world.

This week's new theatre 2011

Some decorative sets of stairs led to nowhere, and I think I got that point: Progressing up the power ladder for the Macbeths leads to nowhere but a long drop.

Macbeth joshenglish 2009

These characters stink, and the Macbeths have had all they can stand.

A Felinist Critique of Macbeth Catherine Davis 2011

What with Mr Blair devouring Mrs Blair who, for her part, urges him to grab the leadership, to stab Brown in the back and, generally speaking, not to live a coward in his own esteem, the two sound more like a pair of comedy Macbeths than the Islington bien pensants they initially resembled.

What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair? 2010

In the grand hierarchy of crimes there are those that produce true villains: Iagos, Macbeths, and Claudiuses (Claudii?).

Nicholas Brown: True Crime (Very Mild Edition) 2009

In the grand hierarchy of crimes there are those that produce true villains: Iagos, Macbeths, and Claudiuses (Claudii?).

Nicholas Brown: True Crime (Very Mild Edition) 2009

In the grand hierarchy of crimes there are those that produce true villains: Iagos, Macbeths, and Claudiuses (Claudii?).

Nicholas Brown: True Crime (Very Mild Edition) 2009

They come across in this report like frontier Macbeths, the Borgias of Wasilla.

RJ Eskow: GOP's Defense: She Shot the Sheriff, But She Did Not Shoot the Deputy 2008

One can see that mockery is very much the Macbeths 'style, but it is also, most painfully, their substance: they are fictions, after all, in the pageant of fictions that makes Scotland real to itself and others.

What is Scotland? O'Hagan, Andrew 2008