Shakespeare retellings are sometimes, to me, the bellwether for the world writ large. Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth takes the powerful character of Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, combined with the myth and magic of Marie de France’s lais and reforms the story you know, even if you’ve read Macbeth backwards and forwards. Intrepid Shakespeare readers will know the story beats, but will gasp at the “how” and the “why” of each one. The beautiful and witchy Roscilla - soon to become our Lady Macbeth - finds herself and her power in the lonely peaks of medieval Scotland. Riveting and gorgeous, Reid’s writing will captivate you.