However, in Act V, Scene I, Lady Macbeth’s strength has turned to guilt-ridden fragility. She sleepwalks, trying in vain to cleanse her hands of Duncan’s blood. Each line in Lady Macbeth’s ...

Thirteen years ago, then fifth-grader Jhenzen Gonzales took her first foray into the world of theater. She was set to play ...

The Thane waffles, the Lady schemes, the King dies, the blood spills. The component parts all appear to be shipshape in Michael Kahn's handsome new staging of "Macbeth." Yet even as the ever ...

Towards the end of the play, Lady Macbeth imagines she can see spots of blood on her hands. At the start of the play, she appears to push aside any feelings of guilt. Now these emotions have ...

The dark, feminist tale, Lady Macbeth doesn't deal with royalty or take place in medieval Scotland. It has no witches, nor much rinsing of blood from hands. It's not even based on Shakespeare.

Lady Macbeth, a character from Shakespear's play "Macbeth", had plotted to kill the king and would repeatedly wash her imaginary blood-stained hands, hoping it would wash away her sins.

Lady Macbeth ... How can these little hands ever be clean of guilt, when they are gloved in the blood they smothered, still warm, upon the sleeping innocents. I held the very daggers that ...

Macbeth is the one who can’t seem to wash the blood off his hands. As he descends into the particular brand of madness usually reserved for Lady Macbeth, she transforms into the king.