If you love Shakespeare's plays, you should enjoy this thriller built around the mystery, witchcraft, and theories surrounding Will's MacBeth. Oh, no! I said the name of the play-- a curse upon me! Yep, apparently in theater circles you are to call it "the play" as for over 100 years, people of the stage have warded off the curse with a specific ritual.
Though hard to separate it out, the book does contain a lot of history surrounding the MacBeth family, Wiccan practices of both white and black magic, and the "Fire Night Festival" (better known to us as Halloween) as celebrated in Edinburgh. Fortunately, the author provides an explanation in the afterward for what is and isn't historically correct, which characters and buildings are real and which fictional.
A bonus for us theater-buffs is a scene in Her Majesty's Theater in London, long-time home for the show "Phantom of the Opera".
Though hard to separate it out, the book does contain a lot of history surrounding the MacBeth family, Wiccan practices of both white and black magic, and the "Fire Night Festival" (better known to us as Halloween) as celebrated in Edinburgh. Fortunately, the author provides an explanation in the afterward for what is and isn't historically correct, which characters and buildings are real and which fictional.
A bonus for us theater-buffs is a scene in Her Majesty's Theater in London, long-time home for the show "Phantom of the Opera".
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