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Special session may lay groundwork for January
Pignanelli: A twist of Shakespeare's King Macbeth oration offers the best description of the activity surrounding tax reform in the upcoming special session: "a tale ... full of sound and fury, signif...

Talking Film: Macbeth - Shakespeare in the 'hood (VIC)
WHEN 19 September WHERE ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne Preview screening of Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth, followed by discussion with Macbeth director Geoffrey Wright & producer Jenni Tosi and special guest Marion Potts, Associate Director 2006 from the Bell Shakespeare company. [more...]

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The last word on Tom Cruise: "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; Signifying nothing." ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5.


Lusting for more wiki action
Here's a topic that promises to spur some online conversations: Nancy Pearl and her Book Lust empire is one of the newest wiki sites on Wetpaint. The beloved Seattle librarian is the subject of what Seattle start-up Wetpaint calls "a community for people who love books." The wiki is apparently a team effort by Wetpaint and Pearl's publisher, Sasquatch Books, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports. I like the feature that lets you "post a question for Nancy." So what does she think it takes to be well-read? A large dose of Shakespeare (King Lear, Hamlet, or MacBeth), some Herman Melville (Moby Dick), the poems of Walt Whitman, The Apology by Plato, and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. For a different kind of book lover, there's an entire wiki devoted to the DaVinci Code.

Macbeth
SYDNEY -- Baz Luhrmann set the bar high for maverick adaptations of Shakespeare, but fellow Aussie director Geoffrey Wright takes a game leap at it with his postmodern rendering of "Macbeth."...

mikepurvis on Homework makes kids hate learning
I was never really a fan of lit, especially the analysis stuff, but I knew a lot of people who never have read anything they didn't have to read for school. Regardless of how much they think they internalized, it's probably good to have been through Hamlet and Macbeth at least once or twice. I'm wary of "it sucks but it's good for you"-style arguments (especially when they're used to justify nonsense like this); perhaps the onus is on the teachers to make lit not suck. But students should be able to realise that even if they don't like Catcher in the Rye, it's worth holding on for the undisputed classics. (Shakespeare, Watership Down, Flowers for Algernon, etc.)

Special session may lay groundwork for January
A twist of Shakespeare's King Macbeth oration offers the best description of the activity surrounding tax reform in the upcoming special session: "a tale