Lady Macbeth of Maseru

Maesaiah Thabane, wife of Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and therefore First Lady of Lesotho, is charged with ordering the murder of his previous wife three years ago, and he’s accused of being her accomplice.

Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane, right, pictured on Aug. 9, 2017, with Cyril Ramaphosa, who is now prime minister of South Africa. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 2, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—First there was Macbeth, the Shakespeare play (1606). It’s a bloody play even by Shakespeare’s demanding standards, with Lady Macbeth as the chief inciter to violence. Then there’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a short novel by Nikolai Leskov (1865) that was later ...

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