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?

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. At the start of the play, Banquo is Macbeth’s friend and is also a general in King Duncan’s ...

This wouldn’t require some radical revision of the original play, which endures in part because the tangle of influences on Macbeth’s desires can lean in multiple directions, depending how we ...

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.

However, as the play develops, Banquo starts to suspect that Macbeth has killed King Duncan. Macbeth believes that Banquo’s son, Fleance, threatens his position as king.