The Tragedy of Macbeth: How Denzel Washington Does Shakespeare

The world of this Macbeth is colorless, surreal, and, in many ways, empty. But not just any man walks across this empty space of a world—Denzel Washington does.

Sources:
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. 6th ed., New York City, Touchstone, 1996.

Sirmons, Julia. "Cinema, Theater, and the Art of Perpetual Transformation in Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth.'" The Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2022.

Willmore, Alison. "The Tragedy of Macbeth Is Pretty Much Just One Phenomenal Denzel Washington Performance." Vulture, New York Magazine, 27 Sept. 2021.


Film Credits:
The Tragedy of Macbeth. Directed by Joel Cohen, performances by Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Corey Hawkins, A24, 2021.

Macbeth. Directed by Rupert Goold, performance by Patrick Stewart, BBC, 2010.

Macbeth. Directed by Justin Kurzel, performance by Michael Fassbender, StudioCanal, 2015.

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