The Making Of "Macbeth"
February, 1972
From the moment in the spring of 1970 when Roman Polanski started work on the screenplay of Shakespeare's Macbeth with collaborator (and Playboy Contributing Editor) Kenneth Tynan, the thrust of the perfectionist director's efforts was toward making the Macbeths a living, breathing couple rather than pasteboard declaimers of too-familiar lines; toward bringing to life their earthily medieval surroundings, down to the very squalor that passed for luxury in the 11th Century. And the result--which...
