This week on Crash Course Literature, John Green is continuing to talk about Shakespeare's dark, bloody, Scottish play, Macbeth. This time around, we're looking at the play's characters operate, how the play deals with gender, and the...

This video features a performance of a key scene in Act 5, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," where Macbeth confronts the potential truth of the witches' prophecies. It delves into his reaction to the report of Birnam Wood moving toward...

Macbeth tells the story of a good man gone bad, driven to murder by ugly ambition and fueled by a power-hungry wife. Lady Macbeth guilty about the Kings murder commits suicide. Macbeth hears of the English army advancing on his castle....