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?

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 ...

Their haste to murder Duncan and take his throne now reads as a last, desperate grasp at power. The age gap also lends further dimension to Washington’s charm in Macbeth’s early scenes.