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☆ Like My Book Title? Thanks, I Borrowed It.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Which two big novels of the past two years borrowed their titles from “Macbeth”? Nailing the answer — “Birnam Wood” and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” — might make you feel a little smug. ), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search-optimized headline compels you to click a link. The name of a book becomes more memorable when it echoes something you might have heard — or think you should have heard — before. Before the turn of the 20th century titles were more descriptive than allusive.

Persons: don’t, “, Pamela, ” “ Robinson, ”, Marcel Proust, Shakespeare Locations: Wuthering, Bethlehem

☆ Was John Singer Sargent also the first celebrity stylist?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

London CNN —In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Despite curating a selection of her best frocks, Eleanor Iselin was captured in her casual day dress at the insistence of Sargent. Working during the rise of haute couture, both Sargent and his subjects were living through a new dawn of fashion. Rachel was styled in a scrap of pink fabric which Sargent manipulated on canvas to become a dress. “Their work was ready-to-wear, using off the (rack) elements of portraiture, whereas with Sargent it always was bespoke.

Persons: Eleanora Iselin, John Singer Sargent, Eager, Iselin, “ Sargent, Eleanor Iselin, Sargent, It’s, James Finch, ”, —, Finch, Margaret Oliphant, Edith Wharton, Gretchen, Rachel Warren, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Rachel, Tate Britain “ He’s, ” Finch, “ He’s, ” Sargent, Sybil Sassoon, couturier Charles Fredrick Worth, Worth, Sassoon, ’ Reframing, Lily, Lily Rose ”, Sybil Sassoon’s, “, they’ve, Ellen Terry, Lady Macbeth, Jai Monaghan, Tate Britain ‘, Sargent’s Organizations: London CNN —, Fashion, Tate, of Art, Tate Britain, CNN, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Locations: New York, Tate Britain, of Art , Washington, London, Scottish, Boston, Worth, Paris

NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra's podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesWelser-Möst had surgery Sept. 1 to remove a cancerous tumor from his bladder and came back to Cleveland to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28. Both are very well now, so there’s every reason to be optimistic.”Welser-Möst has been Cleveland's music director since 2002-03 and has appointed 69 musicians, including 52 of the current 105 members. And in those days, of course, I was like: How on earth is he doing that?”Welser-Möst first conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in 1993 and became music director for the 2002-03 season. On the afternoon of his return concert on Jan. 11, he announced he will retire as music director at the end of 2026-27, his 25th season.

Persons: — Franz Welser, “, George Szell, ”, Verdi's, Möst, André Gremillet, Franz Leopold Maria Möst, Baron Andreas von Bennigsen, Herbert von Karajan, Karajan, Albert Moser, Vienna’s, “ I’d, wasn't, “ I’m, Clive Gillinson, he's, Beethoven's, Strauss, “ I’ve, Riccardo Muti, Gustavo Dudamel Organizations: Cleveland, Cleveland's Severance Music Center, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Cleveland Orchestra’s, Berlin Philharmonic’s, Karajan, Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie, ” Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, “ Locations: Austrian, Austria, New York, Naples, West Palm Beach , Florida, Cleveland, Vienna, Linz, Welser, Liechtenstein, Salzburg, Berlin, York, Weimar Republic, Weimar, Zurich, U.S

☆ I went to school in the US and in Spain. My learning felt stagnant in the US, but my social life was fun.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Megan Thorson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After moving back to the US for high school, I felt like my classes were a joke. When my family moved back to the US, I started my freshman year of high school. And while that learning stagnated a bit in the US, high school was great social fun. High school felt like a joke by comparison. Much of what I learned in my chemistry and algebra classes in high school was a repeat of 8th grade.

Persons: —, I'd, Franz Kafka's, you'd Organizations: Service, AP Locations: Madrid, Spain, British, Atlanta, Georgia

☆ ‘Eileen’ Review: Sudden Fire, Sudden Danger
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | More About Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

McKenzie’s accent is a bit wobblier than Hathaway’s, but once you’re over that hump, the pair are thrilling together. McKenzie plays Eileen as a wide-eyed girl in arrested development who might have been an ingénue if she’d ever had a moment to sparkle. That’s you, Eileen. Oldroyd’s cold but keen eye for women pushed to the edge of a nervous breakdown by boorish, violent men meets rich ground here. Not just Eileen, but Rebecca and several other female characters are not good or angelic women, and yet they’ve clearly bent themselves to fit molds made by men.

Persons: McKenzie, Eileen, she’d, You’re, Rebecca, Radcliffe, She’s, —, she’s, William Oldroyd, Macbeth, ”, Florence Pugh Organizations: Harvard Locations: England, Moshfegh

☆ Shakespeare portrait sent to edge of space to celebrate 400 years since ‘First Folio’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —William Shakespeare’s influence over the world remains unwavering more than four centuries after the renowned dramatist began his career. To mark the continued resonance of the famed playwright’s words 400 years after the publication of his “First Folio” on November 8, 1623, British filmmaker Jack Jewers has sent a portrait of Shakespeare along with a speech from one of his best-known works to the edge of space. A team from aerospace company Sent Into Space helped with the space flight. “I had this image in my head: a portrait of Shakespeare – the universal playwright, whose work I truly believe speaks to everyone – backgrounded by space, with earth’s curvature in the background. “The parallels are uncanny and Shakespeare’s words are fresher now than ever before in their ability to speak powerfully to our own contemporary lives,” he added.

Persons: William Shakespeare’s, Jack Jewers, Shakespeare, Mr, William Shakespeares, ”, “, Tom Baker, Who, –, lockdowns Organizations: CNN, Reuters Locations: British, Ukraine, Europe, London

☆ Shakespeare's portrait sent to edge of space to mark 400 years of 'First Folio'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

William Shakespeare's First Folio on display at Christies in London, April 24, 2023. Shakespeare's First Folio was compiled by his friends and published on Nov. 8, 1623, seven years after his death. Some 750 copies are believed to have been printed, containing 36 of the 37 plays Shakespeare wrote, arranged for the first time as comedies, tragedies and histories. "A tiny copy of the speech we used, which is 'The Lovers and Madmen' speech from 'Midsummer Night's Dream', (was) inserted into the portrait," Jewers told Reuters. "The Stranger's Case" features a speech Shakespeare contributed to an unperformed play alongside footage of refugees at sea.

Persons: William Shakespeare's, Anna Gordon, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Jack Jewers, Tom Baker, Jewers, Will Tosh, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Shakespeare's Globe, Thomson Locations: London, Ukraine

☆ Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Now known as the First Folio, that volume has become a lodestone of Shakespeare scholarship over the centuries, offering the most definitive versions of his work along with clues to his process and plenty of disputes about authorship and intention. In honor of its 400th anniversary, the British Library and Rizzoli recently released a facsimile version of the First Folio. On this week’s episode, The Times’s critic at large Sarah Lyall talks with Adrian Edwards, head of the library’s Printed Heritage Collections, about Shakespeare’s work, the library’s holdings and the cultural significance of that original volume. “If we didn’t have the First Folio, given that all the manuscript versions of the plays are lost, we wouldn’t have plays such as ‘The Tempest’ or ‘Twelfth Night’ or ‘A Winter’s Tale’ or ‘Julius Caesar’ or ‘Antony Cleopatra’ or ‘Macbeth,’” Edwards says. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

Persons: William Shakespeare, Sarah Lyall, Adrian Edwards, Julius Caesar ’, ‘ Antony Cleopatra ’, ’ ” Edwards, “, ” Organizations: British Library, Rizzoli

NEW YORK (AP) — On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500. The British Museum is collaborating with Rizzoli Books in New York on “Shakespeare’s First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition,” contained within a slipcase cover. Besides Doran's introduction, the Folio Society release includes a foreword by Dame Judi Dench. “In an era when everything seems disposable, I feel like there's a good market for fine editions of classic books,” says Folio Society publishing director Tom Walker. “You can buy a Ben Jonson folio for a few thousand dollars; a Shakespeare folio will cost you millions.

Persons: Shakespeare's, Mr, William Shakespeares, Shakespeare, “ Macbeth, ”, ” Gregory Doran, Adrian Edwards, George R.R, Martin's, Dame Judi Dench, Neil Packer, “, Tom Walker, Chris Laoutaris, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson ”, Henry, Emily Folger, Sir George Grey, ” Laoutaris, ’, James Shapiro Organizations: Royal Shakespeare Company, British Museum, New York Public Library, British, Rizzoli Books, Folio Society, Folio, Shakespeare Institute, Avon, Columbia University Locations: New York, London, playwright's, Stratford, British, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France

☆ Ex-Goldman Sachs trader to lead Greece's leftist Syriza party
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Renee Maltezou | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/7] The newly elected leader of Syriza leftist party, Stefanos Kasselakis walks outside the party's headquarters in Athens, Greece, September 25, 2023. Syriza was catapulted to power at the height of Greece's debt crisis in 2015, but lost to the conservative New Democracy party in 2019 and in June 2023. Kasselakis replaces Alexis Tsipras, a firebrand leftist whose anti-austerity rhetoric rallied voters around Syriza during the debt crisis. After coming to power, Tsipras was forced to accept a third international bailout and more austerity. Since Kasselakis is not a lawmaker, he will most likely need to appoint a party deputy to lead Syriza's parliamentary group.

Persons: Stefanos, Louisa Gouliamaki, Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, Goldman Sachs, Effie Achtsioglou, Kasselakis, Joe Biden, Tsipras, Nikos Pappas, Tyler Macbeth, Renee Maltezou, Michele Kambas, Emelia Organizations: REUTERS, ATHENS, Sunday, Syriza, New Democracy, ERT, Democratic, firebrand, Facebook, Kasselakis, Thomson Locations: Athens, Greece, Kasselakis, Achtsioglou, United States, Syriza, Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

☆ Opinion | DeSantis Shrank in Ramaswamy’s Shadow
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a crowded debate, you can tell which candidates are seen as the greatest threat because they take the most incoming fire from their rivals. Watching the DeSantis campaign collapse has been an extraordinarily edifying spectacle. Trump endorsed DeSantis for governor of Florida when DeSantis was struggling against a strong Republican opponent for the party’s nomination. So, there was always something in the DeSantis campaign that knew that he was Macbeth coming to kill his king. He lacks the courage, which is ironic given that DeSantis wrote a book before his run entitled, “The Courage to Be Free.”

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump’s, Vivek Ramaswamy, DeSantis, Macbeth, ” Organizations: Republican, Trump, Be Locations: Florida

☆ Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Christopher Kuo | More About Christopher Kuo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent Wednesday, a dozen members of the cast of “Camelot” gathered in a circle in a rehearsal room in the basement of Lincoln Center Theater. As Philippe began speaking, Matthews squinted his eyes shut and silently mouthed the words. “Even now I curse the day——” Philippe said before he was quickly cut off by Matthews, who jabbed a finger in the air. “You went down on ‘day,’” Matthews said, referring to Philippe’s incorrect inflection. Over the next two hours, Matthews paced the room coaching the group through monologues from “Julius Caesar,” “Henry IV” and “Macbeth,” interrupting a performer to correct the pronunciation of “doth,” or to help find the “internal shape” in a text.

Persons: Camelot ”, Fergie Philippe, Sir Sagramore, King Arthur, quizzically, Shakespeare’s “ Titus Andronicus, ”, Dakin Matthews, Merlyn, Pellinore, Philippe, Matthews, — ” Philippe, ’ ” Matthews, “ Julius Caesar, ” “ Henry IV ” Organizations: Lincoln Center

LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - King Charles will mark 400 years since William Shakespeare's plays were published in collective form on Tuesday, bringing actors and directors together to celebrate his love for the bard and a book hailed as one of the most important in English literature. Compiled by Shakespeare's friends seven years after his death, the Folio contained plays which had never before been published. Now he is sovereign, Charles, 74, wants to shape a monarchy fit for the future. He has been president of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1991. At the Windsor Castle reception on Tuesday, actors will perform including Simon Russell Beale and Harriet Walter, two of Britain's greatest stage actors.

Persons: King Charles, William Shakespeare's, Shakespeare, Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Camilla, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Shakespeare's, Henry IV, Simon Russell Beale, Harriet Walter, Sarah Young, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: ROYAL, Royal Shakespeare Company, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Windsor, Britain

☆ How a Recycling Leader Spends His Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Alix Strauss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

PROCESS We meet in the back room of the Revision Lounge, a bar in the East Village, where one of the members works. As a theater company, we’re still learning what life after the pandemic is like. POOR PLAYERS We usually break out our scripts and refine what we’ve done or are transforming. Our next play is Macbeth, which we perform at various places, the bar, Sure We Can, or at people’s homes. Every actor learns the complete text of the play and we change roles on impulse so it’s constantly shifting.

Persons: we’re, it’s, They’re Locations: East

☆ Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful Features
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful FeaturesThe new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software. Khan Academy, the popular online learning nonprofit, recently developed an experimental A.I.-assisted tutoring bot for schools called Khanmigo. Students can use it to take math quizzes, practice vocabulary words or prepare for Advanced Placement tests in subjects like statistics and art history. The tutoring bot also offers more playful, free-form features. We Chat With ‘Benjamin Franklin’The Khanmigo tutoring bot has a feature that lets students chat with simulated historical figures.

Persons: Khan, Khanmigo, Lady Macbeth, Khanmigo’s, Benjamin Franklin ’, Abigail Adams, Harriet Tubman, Plato, Rembrandt Organizations: Khan Academy, Khanmigo

☆ Here are stocks to own to take the debt ceiling, bond market out of your investing equation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

Are the travails of the bond market, like Macbeth expounds, a "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?" The billionaire class — so incorrectly sought after by the media — so often seems to use the bond market as a sort of intellectual cudgel. That's why I always start my discussion on bonds with the simple query of "where are the layoffs, not forget about stocks, think fixed income." Here the bond market polices only those companies that haven't pivoted to making a profit. They, among all sectors, could be pummeled by the bond market freeze and by the consumers' paralysis.

☆ Rare outing for six Shakespeare’s First Folio copies in London
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Six highly rare first edition collections of William Shakespeare’s plays will go on show in London next week in what auction house Christie's says will be the largest display of the works in Britain. The exhibition, which marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623, runs in Christie's London showroom from May 2 until May 26. [1/6] William Shakespeare's First Folio on display at Christies in London, April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Anna Gordon 1 2 3 4 5"We don't know exactly how many copies were published, but the most likely guesstimate is 750 copies, and 235 copies survive in some form. "It's the only time that the public can see six copies of the First Folio together exhibited," Ford said.

☆ Factbox: Little known facts about King Charles: One-time jockey and hedgelayer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - King Charles will be crowned next month at London's Westminster Abbey, following in a tradition that dates back some 1,000 years. Here are some little known facts about the monarch:FIRST REGAL SCHOOLBOYCharles is the first monarch to have gone to school, as all his predecessors were educated by private tutors. As part of his education, he spent two terms at Geelong Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia. SPORTYAs a young prince, Charles loved skiing, surfing, and scuba diving. MUSIC AND ARTS LOVERCAMBERLEY, ENGLAND - APRIL 14: King Charles III inspects the 200th Sovereign's parade at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on April 14, 2023 in Camberley, England.

☆ Spotlighting Lady Macbeth’s Anguish: Can What’s Done Be Undone?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Oussama Zahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Macduff, the chorus, Macbeth’s big Act IV aria — all scrapped. In typical stagings, Lady Macbeth comes across as an unsubtle, unrepentant harridan whose abrupt crisis of conscience in the opera’s final act stretches credulity. Heartbeat starts with Lady Macbeth’s breakdown as the essential truth of her character and then molds the narrative to fit it. The show begins with Lady Macbeth in bed, sobbing uncontrollably, full of remorse for all the blood she has helped to shed. In Heartbeat’s telling, Lady Macbeth, no longer the scapegoat for her husband’s foul behavior, is the one who is led astray by an avaricious spouse.

☆ Hey, Bing, Help Me Overcome My Fear of College Basketball
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.🙏Do you know a lot about college basketball, and do you enjoy talking about it? Why are people so obsessed about the college basketball brackets? I've never filled out a college basketball March Madness bracket, and I heard that it's virtually impossible to do completely accurately, even if you predict the winner. When filling out my college basketball bracket, should I just guess according to what team names I like the best? :)I’m afraid I can’t fill out a March Madness bracket, as I’m just a chat mode of Microsoft Bing search.

☆ Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Catton resembles one of those teachers who can take a student’s simple-minded question and, without condescending, shape it into an ingenious one. The bullets really fly in “Birnam Wood.” The big explosion will probably go off. The Birnam Wood collective makes sure its apolitical Facebook page is sunny and welcoming. Birnam Wood has this cockeyed, D.I.Y. She’s aching to leave the collective, and she may not be as sensible as we think she is.

The Sundance Film Festival has long been known for premiering some of the most original — and ultimately the most award-winning — indie titles of the year. As the most notable international film festivals increasingly feature queer titles in their lineups, it’s no surprise that much of the exciting content premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival comes from LGBTQ filmmakers or features queer themes. The Premieres sectionAs usual, many of the year’s most high-profile films, including those from queer creators and featuring queer storylines, are coming out of the festival’s Premieres section. Courtesy of Sundance InstituteEnglert’s film will screen in the world cinema dramatic section alongside queer films “Girl,” from U.K. filmmaker Adura Onashile, and “Mamacruz,” from Spanish director Patricia Ortega. The list of LGBTQ creators and titles doesn’t end there, making this perhaps the most significant Sundance Film Festival for queer cinema yet.

☆ Old Age Is Like a Debenture
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Fay Vincent | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A friend and I both turn 85 this year. His life-expectancy prediction may be generous, as the actuarial number is closer to 6 years. It is important to know when and how to leave each stage of life. Macbeth laments: “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”

☆ 'The Wonder': Florence Pugh's performance makes eerie drama essential viewing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Review Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But when she finds herself in a film that can match her talents, as she does in Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder,” she’s a marvel. In “The Wonder,” a film of considerable emotional depth that asks much of its actors, the result is perhaps her finest work to date. Left to right: Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke and Florence Pugh in "The Wonder." Florence Pugh as Lib Wright and Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in "The Wonder." “The Wonder” is available in select cinemas on November 2 and available on Netflix November 16.

☆ Roger Stone cautioned Ron DeSantis that it would be 'ingratitude and treachery' to run against Trump in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Roger Stone told Ron DeSantis that it would be "ingratitude and treachery" to run against Trump. He also hit out at DeSantis' wife, comparing her to Lady Macbeth. Ron DeSantis that it would be treacherous for him to run against Trump in 2024. In the post, Stone also hit out at DeSantis' wife, Casey DeSantis. "Have you ever noticed how much Ron DeSantis' wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth?"

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