Series: Hogarth Shakespeare

BOOK REVIEW: Macbeth by Jo Nesbø

BOOK REVIEW: Macbeth by Jo Nesbø

Posted May 10, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 9 Comments

The latest addition to Hogarth Shakespeare Project is Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth. For those who do not know, Hogarth was launched in London in 2012 to retold one of the greatest stories of all times by modern day bestselling authors of today. Hogarth was founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf in 1917. This modern-day adaption of Shakespeare’s original play, sharing the same title is set in the 1970s. The book starts in a vividly poetic style. It is a crime plus noir version of the play that was written almost 400 years before. It focuses on a police force attempting to shed the drug problem in the local town. A drug lord, who keeps the whole town by […]

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