Macbeth/YMMV


 * Alternate Character Interpretation: As usual with Shakespeare, there are an absurd number of ways everyone can be portrayed, and which comes across most strongly depends in large part upon the production or the reader.
 * In particular, Roman Polanski's film interpretation has a rather cynical interpretation of the characters Ross and Donalbain.
 * How about just throwing out the play's depiction of the witches as crones and interpreting them as standard Hecate Sisters?
 * Evil Is Cool
 * Evil Is Sexy: Lady Macbeth.
 * Always?
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: For James I.
 * Magnificent Bitch: The three witches.
 * Squick: Lady Macbeth's remark about smashing an infant's skull after ripping it from her breast.
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Middleton's additions to the play.
 * Painful Rhymes: One of the reasons why.
 * The Woobie: First Duncan, then MacDuff.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Macbeth.
 * Unfortunate Implications: While Fair for Its Day, most modern versions tend to leave out the part of the Witch's rhyme where they add "Nose of Turk", "Tartar's Lips", and "Liver of a blasphemous Jew".