Monday, August 28, 2006

Current News and events related to Shakespeare:
APT updates Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
The stage is almost completely bare. The sounds of modern warfare accompany a rather electrifying contemporary interpretation of Scottish folk music exploding from speakers high above the stage.

The real Macbeth was not all toil and trouble
Historians and politicians have begun a campaign to rehabilitate Macbeth by claiming that his reputation has been unfairly maligned by William Shakespeare.

Macbeth Survived Dunsinane
Dunsinane is the setting of Act 5 of "Macbeth" and the location where Macbeth is finally slain. Although Shakespeare and the author of his primary source, Raphael Holinshed, report that Macbeth was killed at Dunsinane, the historical Macbeth actually survived...


Oxfordian, The - Shakespeare in Scotland: what did the author of Macbeth know and when did he know it?
January 1, 2003 -- Awake! Awake! Ring the alarum-bell:--murder and treason! Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! Awake! Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, ...

Scary Shakespeare
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. "Macbeth" (4.1.45-6), Second Witch A collection of the Bard's thoughts on ghosts, witches, and omens, just in time for Halloween....

'Macbeth' spots leading lady
International News: Connelly, Hoffman to star in Bard play -- Jennifer Connelly has joined the long-gestating Todd Louiso adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth."

Backwards 'Macbeth' proves forward-thinking
Lucid Theater Company, after its production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," returns to Shakespeare with a new take on Macbeth at the Bakery Studies, 61 Pleasant St.