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Contest Crazy 8/15
Hello Everyone! On this Day August 15th....... 1057: In events later used by William Shakespeare in one of his greatest tragedies, the Scottish king Macbeth is killed by Malcolm Canmore, the son of King Duncan I, whom Macbeth had murdered 17 years before. 1534: Saint Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of men, in Paris, France. 1935: American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their plane crashes in Alaska. 1939: The film version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, ...

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."...

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.


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

ABC News (Aus.) - Fringe artists work over The Bard
Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee and croissants - the Edinburgh Fringe richly deserves its reputation for artistic anarchy.

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.)

Macbeth auditions to be held at USD
The University of South Dakota Department of Theatre will hold auditions for Macbeth, Shakespeare's towering classic, from 7 to 10 p.m. Aug.