Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Inspired by his wife and longtime creative ...

I am Patrick Lyon, and I write for Collider. I also teach Latin and Literature on the high school level, and have been a lifelong fan of the works of Tolkien. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most ...

Remember that time when Indiana Jones found the Ark of the Covenant? This is a bit like that. In the rural university town of Exeter, England, an academic has uncovered thirteen versions of a lost ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. In the beginning, Macbeth is manipulated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who encourages his ambition and ...

Thespians, a superstitious lot, insist that “Macbeth” should never be directly referred to inside a theater. If an actor accidentally forgets to call Shakespeare’s malevolent masterpiece “the Scottish ...

Michael Fassbender starring as the titular king in a big screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth sounds like an inevitability. Fassbender, recently nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in ...

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 ...