Why do we revere to texts written by a man who lived 400 years ago? Because ideas that reflect the human condition always transcend time and place, and what interests all of us are the motivations behind the way individuals behave. Nothing changes in this respect. However, due to issues surrounding our contemporary society, they are dealt with in different ways to reflect modern values and beliefs. A critical study of William Shakespeare’s Jacobean tragedy Macbeth (1606) and Brozel’s TV production Macbeth Retold set in a twenty-first century restaurant offers us a deeper understanding of universal themes such as unchecked ambition and deception. Shakespeare’s play delivers a didactic message of the destructive nature of these negative traits,
