Sunday, December 17, 2006

Current News and events related to Shakespeare:
Rose has another winner brewing
"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.'' (From Macbeth, by William Shakespeare) As Russ Rose huddles over his pot in his cave in Rec Hall, he continues to brew up his latest concoction.

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.

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...


Macbeth [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Jack Gold.
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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...

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."...

It's Too Late to be Warned..
"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." -"Macbeth", Shakespeare Sarah has run out of nice. And it's Tuesday. Beware.