Friday, December 01, 2006


Updated News on Shakespeare:


 


Edinburgh Fringe: 101 ways to massacre Shakespeare
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee and croissants.

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...

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, ...


Mad About 'Macbeth'
2006 sees two new big screen versions of Shakespeare's tragedy, including a local one set in Melbourne's gangland.

Yahoo! News - 101 ways to massacre The Bard (Reuters)
Reuters - Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee and croissants.

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

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."...