Macbeth: distilări cinematografice
Macbeth: Cinematic Distillations

Summary/Abstract: Macbeth is undoubtedly one of the most popular Shakespearean plays in the realm of adaptations and appropriations, immensely influential on film directors who have chosen over the decades to transform the tyrant figure into a versatile character, open to many interpretations and ways of reading: an unfortunate soul sold to the Devil, a Faust avant la lettre, a Machiavellian king, a sheer victim of his wife’s ambitions, or a symbol of the not always fair fight between Good and Evil. In this article my main objective is analyzing and contrasting three film adaptations of Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948; Roman Polanski, 1971 and Joel Coen, 2021), identifying to what degree do they honour the connection to the original text and how appropriate or innovative are the new aesthetic solutions and the new insights they come up with. What’s the difference between a plausible and an implausible adaptation? How does the cinematic medium succeed in assimilating a material originally created for the specific purpose of being represented on stage?

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