Poets & Writers Theater

Travel back four hundred years for this Victoria and Albert Museum video as Elizabeth James, senior librarian at the National Art Library in London, presents the secrets behind the First Folio of Shakespeare, which was published in 1623 and includes his iconic plays Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and The Tempest.

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Watch the trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth, a film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, written and directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Corey Hawkins.

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.” In this scene from This Is Macbeth, Joan Malkin, Carrie Paff, and Atosa Babaoff deliver their rendition of the three witches in Act One, Scene One of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

"Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" A new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.