Bubble bubble toil and trouble, Birnam wood, cream-faced loon, Lady M, by the pricking of my thumbs, the three witches... there's so much to like here. I badly wanted to give it five stars - I'd hoped and hoped we'd get to study Macbeth in high school, but instead we got saddled with sodding King Lear. So, some 20 years later, when I finally got round to reading the Scottish play, I'd high hopes. And yet, and yet...

Reader, Macbeth is a moron. "I'm going to kill the King in a manner so dodgy only characters even stupider than I am [surprisingly, there are some] couldn't figure it out! I'm warned that Banquo's heirs will have the throne but I'm not going to think about that until I've made myself King. WAIT! You mean I've done all this for someone else's kids? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME?"

On the blasted moor/heath/whatever, the witches are face-palming hard.