Macbeth The Knife
December, 1964
Herewith, to celebrate the close of the Bard's 400th anniversary year, another Playboy service to the Broadway theater, which has so far contented itself with converting only Shakespeare's lighter efforts to major musicals such as Kiss Me, Kate and The Boys from Syracuse. Our first such effort (Playboy, November 1962) was a musical-comedy version of Hamlet, which we called Come to Me, My Melancholy Dane. This time, it's that benighted and bedeviled thane, Macbeth, who gets the portentous-drama-t...
