I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying. But not as dissatisfying as I found Ben Brantley’s review thereof. Not that I disagree with all of Brantley’s complaints, ...

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good.

One of history's greatest playwrights was William Shakespeare. In his play 'Macbeth,” three witches predict tragedy for the titular general. In this excerpt from Act IV, Scene I, the 'weird sisters” ...

There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who ...