Why One Critic Hates 'Macbeth' (But Will Keep Seeing It Anyway)

"There is little in the way of a narrative arc - just a steadily growing pile of bodies. ... There is no one to root for, but there is little to root against, and the play just gets subsumed in a not particularly interesting form of misery. ... And yet however much I scorn Macbeth, I'll keep going back." Jane Howard explains why (and, in the process, gives a critic's credo).