Macbeth is too ambitious to wait and see if this will happen. Instead he kills King Duncan with some help from Lady Macbeth. He becomes King of Scotland, but his troubles don’t end there.

Shakespeare's play tells us how Lord and Lady Macbeth plotted the killing of King Duncan. The Bard seems pretty clear it was murder. But was the killing of Duncan actually, legally, murder?

The character Macbeth is based on a real king from Scottish history, Mac Bethad mac Findláich. Shakespeare made lots of changes to the facts to make the play more dramatic.

James O'Loghlin spoke with David McInnis, Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Melbourne to try to determine who the real Macbeth was, and why Shakespeare ...

The witches claim that the childless Macbeth will become king, but Banquo will give rise to a new line of monarchs. Macbeth’s victory is rewarded by Duncan, and he is anointed the Thane of Cawdor.

In the opening scene, Horak plays both Macbeth and Banquo and then has to add King Duncan to his repertoire but the tour de force of multiple roles occurs the morning after Duncan has been ...

An awe-inspiring production of William Shakespeare’s masterwork tragedy, 'Macbeth' is now being performed at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) through November 17th. Read the review.