Linux Enhances Shakespeare

marXian writes "Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven." Allright, pick your jaw up off the floor ;)

Comments

Shakespear.sourceforce.net

[KingDaveRa]

Well, I suppose the plays are GPL now...

Re:Shakespear.sourceforce.net

[Anonymous Coward]

Its of course GNU/Shakespear because without the GNU utilities he would have never written Hamlet

MacBeth....

[MadBiologist]

Double Double... AMD, Intel are in trouble, Chipset burn and servers bubble.... With apologies to Big Willie!

Re:MacBeth....

[labratuk]

Is this a tarball I see before me...

Re:MacBeth....

[VCAGuy]

"Angels and ministers of grace defend us" from these terrible Shakespeare puns! [Hamlet, I, iv, 20]

Re:MacBeth....

[Anonymous Coward]

Et tu, Stallman!

Re:MacBeth....

[EEgopher]

"We hath scotched Bill Gates, not killed it. . ."

Oh, yay, great

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey everyone, lets put on an avant garde show!

Linus MacBeth

[joshsnow]

"Life is a tale told by an idiot, who but struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is gone - unless he is a 19yr old Finnish Computer Science student, in which case he achieves immortality"
"tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, Linux World Domination is all I see before me"

Re:Linus MacBeth

[mysticgoat]

This thread would have been much the safer if it had been entitled in the curse-proof tradition:

The Scottish Play augmented by the Finnish OS

Let us hope that the old curse knows not how cross platforms lest all our files be iambically pentameterized...

Re:Linus MacBeth

[griffjon]

lest all our files be iambically pentameterized...

Isn't that required for InterCal interoperation anyway?

Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[Anonymous Coward]

Malcolm:

We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[Black Parrot]

We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

Could someone translate that to English for us?

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[kfg]

"Could someone translate that to English for us?"

You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right? :)

I can see it now:

Yo! What's wit dis damn spot?

KFG

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[jamesangel]

It won't be long before I acknowledge what you have done for me, and reward you. My lords and relatives will now be Earls, the first time that title has been used in Scotland. Also, we're going to call home our friends who fled the tyranny of Macbeth and allowed him and his horrible Queen (who killed herself) to rule.

We will do all these things and whatever else as necessary. Thanks to you all; please come and see me crowned at Scone. [=ancient seat of the Scottish kings]

Doesn't quite sound the same, does it? Which is the point, of course. It does take effort to read and get into Shakespeare but once you get a sense of it you understand why he is considered to be such a genius. I hated it at school, but now I'm older I'm very glad they made me do it.

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[alfedenzo]

"Could someone translate that to English for us?"

You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right? ;)

Like The Skinhead Hamlet or Ebonics Hamlet?

Not Macbeth, true, but still Shakespeare.

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[Mr. Bad Example]

"My lord, the queen is dead."

"fux0r!"

Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[darien]

pay u bk sn. lrds & fam 2 b erls, + wl call xiles bak. tnx! ps cm 2 crntn @ scn

Public domain?

[GQuon]

No way!
Public domain!

non?

Re:Public domain?

[KingDaveRa]

I can just see it. On arriving at a theatre, you're handed a license, and told that the beer isn't free. :-)

Shouldn't they call it:

[Mac Degger]

YASA (Yet Another Shakespeare adaptation)?

(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[GQuon]

If ((2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))){
answer="yes";
}
else{
answer="no";
}

printf(be);

>a.out
>yes

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[the endless]

I prefer the regex version... /(bb|[^b]{2})/

To the regex-ignorant... the above matches two B's or not-B twice ("to be or not to be").

There's even a t-shirt :)

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

Man, I'm not sure if you got that +4 Funny for the so-old-its-stone joke, or the attempt at C. Don't try to pretend its some sort of Psuedo-code either, because we both know it isn't.

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

#define 2B true

class Question{
public:
Question();
~Question();
};

int main( int argc, char *argv[]){
Question the;
Question *that;

if(2B || !2B)
that = &the;

return( 0 );
}

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

No, that's the answer - the question is: What is the square root of 4B squared?

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

Yey, freeky psuedo code boy, try this on:

while(GQuon){
no_sex();
}

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[GQuon]

Yey, freeky psuedo code boy, try this on:

while(GQuon){
no_sex();
}

Yes. No sex for Anonymous Cowards while I'm around. Too much mojo ;-)

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

so-old-its-stone joke
I haven't heard it before. Honestly. Sorry.

Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))

[Anonymous Coward]

positive and negative 4B of course.

unless you meant 4(B^2).

In which case it'd be positive and negative 2B.

Choice of pager

[Migrant Programmer]

The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more

Come on now, don't you know all the cool geeks are using less these days?

Re:Choice of pager

[greenalbatros]

don't you know all the cool geeks are using less these days

but less is more, more or less

an Ode

[Montgomery Burns III]

Oh Linus, Linus where art thou fair Linus?

Re:an Ode

[ihavenovoice]

Grrr... This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette. It should have been: Linus oh Linus. Wherefore art thou linus? The question in Romeo and Juliette is Not the question -where- Romeo is, but -why- his name is Romeo. This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. 1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3. .... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong.

Re:an Ode

[Montgomery Burns III]

Thanks for the correction! I was not an English Lit. major (obviously).
:-)

Re:an Ode

[coke_dite]

If you're gonna be nitpicky about it...

This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette ~ Have you ever read it? It's Juliet - no tte at the end :)

This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. ~ Pray tell, what is a sirname? I'm hoping you meant sUrname...

1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3. .... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong. ~ actually, everybody got the gist of his post, so who cares? It works even less if you spell your nitpicking wrong ;)

Re:an Ode

[ihavenovoice]

Okay let's just say we 'are' going to be nitpicky. ;)

Indeed it's Juliet, you got me there.

But considering we are discussing an English writer not an American one: sirname indeed is correct. Surname would be the American version of the word.

But you are right, most would have gotten the gist. My main gripe is not with this post but moreso with people abusing this Shakespeare quote in general. And considering this topic was about Shakespeare, it seemed relevant.

I'll just end my boring rant ... ->here-

Re:an Ode

[Anonymous Coward]

But considering we are discussing an English writer not an American one: sirname indeed is correct. Surname would be the American version of the word.

Where did you get that tripe from? Trust me, surname is the correct spelling in British English. Sirname? Whats that?

Re:an Ode

[ihavenovoice]

Just to be complete: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sirname

Context is everything.

[HelbaSluice]

SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!

MACBETH: She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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.

--Roughly from Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

Re:Context is everything.

[ch-chuck]

Ok, I'll give it a shot:

-+-+-+-+

SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!

MACBETH: It should have died hereafter;
There would have been bandwidth for such requests.
Page after page after page
Creeps in this petty pace from client to client
To the last tag of a slashdotted site,
and all our access logs have lighted admins
to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light!
The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser
that struts and frets his hour upon the screen
and then is heard no more: it is an offer
made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises,
signifying nothing.

Re:Context is everything.

[Anonymous Coward]

[FX] Applause
Bravo! Less! Less!

It's just pseudo-code

[GQuon]

It's just pseudo-code. It runs on a pseudo-machine. A machine that can guess what I want to do. Much like Windows can't.

more info found by using google

[Anonymous Coward]

as i can't get the website piratehave.org

http://www.albionarts.org/pages/makb3th.html

Appropriate

[Noksagt]

Like the Scottish Play, data heavens still seem to be a cursed venture.

Re:Appropriate

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

data heavens still seem to be a cursed venture.

Cursed heavens... that seems like a bad idea...
cursed havens, on the other hand... that might be a reality. I just think that "heaven" by definition, can't be cursed...

Re:Appropriate

[Noksagt]

A data haven by any other name would still be as....

Ah, who am I kidding?!

If your data does wind up in data heaven, you're pretty much screwed.

Shakespeare + Simpsons =

[sczimme]

MacHomer. An excerpt from the 'About' page:

This one-man vocal spectacular features over 50 voices from TV's favourite dysfunctional family in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy! Starring 'Homer Simpson' as Macbeth and 'Marge' as Lady Macbeth (in a script which remains 85% Shakespeare), MacHomer is hysterically funny and amazing to watch.

A friend of mine saw MacHomer in the DC area and though it was great; apparently the voices are quite accurate.

Oops - sorry: Linux! Linux! Linux!

(Don't want to be off-topic. D'oh.)

Re:Shakespeare + Simpsons =

[Sgs-Cruz]

This is Slashdot. When are 'the Simpsons' ever off-topic? :)

Re:Shakespeare + Simpsons =

[poot_rootbeer]

Tiny Ninja Macbeth > MacHomer

Re:ouvrez le th��tre de source

[Anonymous Coward]

public domain (copyright expired, and copyright didn't even exist until the 1700s)

Breaking news!! (Reuters) 15:22 GMT

[borgdows]

Shakespeare is dead! Netcraft confirms!

Re:Breaking news!! (Reuters) 15:22 GMT

[Anonymous Coward]

And U.S. television refuses to air the pictures.

Re:Breaking news!! (Reuters) 15:22 GMT

[Anonymous Coward]

He still got to see communication reach the other side of The Globe though...

Out, out, damned spot...

[matt_wilts]

..well, not so much spot as Slashdot. Predictably suffering.

MacBeth, not Hamlet

[Jan-Pascal]

Go re-read your Shakespeare. The "to be or not to be" quote is from Hamlet, not from MacBeth.

Re:MacBeth, not Hamlet

[Anonymous Coward]

s = new Spot()
Damn( s )
out( PORT, s )

Re:ouvrez le th��tre de source

[Mitchell Mebane]

Neither. It is public domain.

Not so fast!

[paiute]

This just in - the US Congress today extended copyright protection back to "three business days before the Earth coalesced from the formless void", so the laywer representing the descendants of the Bard will be calling on these IP pirates and terrorists this afternoon with the mother of all cease-and-desist orders.

Re:Not so fast!

[MrHanky]

A Congress spokesperson said, commenting on the new extension:

All causes shall give way: We are in copyright
Step't in so far that, should we wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er:
Strange things we have in head, that will to hand;
Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.

Lawyers are currently debating whether it's feasible to build a time machine to sue those who infringe copyright even before the works have been scanned.

Re:Not so fast!

[Anonymous Coward]

The statistics relating to the geo-social nature of the Universe, for instance, are deftly set out between pages nine hundred and thirty-eight thousand and twenty-four and nine hundred and thirty-eight thousand and twenty-six; and the simplistic style in which they are written is partly explained by the fact that the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnoted in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic Copyright laws.

It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.

- Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Chapter 19.

Actually, it's called GNU/Shakespeare. . .

[Limburgher]

I suppose you could also use the GNU/Bard kernel. It's really up to you, because Iambic Pentameter wants to be free!

iMacBeth

[GQuon]

I know. But who reads past the headlines anyway?

Re:iMacBeth

[Jack Comics]

After the iMacBeth is finished entertaining you for the evening, does it stab you to death while you're sleeping? Or is that only if you have the last name of Gates?

Re:iMacBeth

[darien]

MacOnLinux... In stylish blood red colors.

That would be MacOnRouge then? :) *clink*

Klingon?

[eingram]

I bet it's best when presented in its original Klingon.

Re:Klingon?

[dupper]

taH pagh taHbe'. DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS. quv'a', yabDaq San vaQ cha, pu' je SIQDI'?

a sample?

[Joe the Lesser]

Macbeth:
Here upon the platform oil
I do hack and code and toil
free information for them all
yet I recieve naught but their gall
They shall rue they day of spite
When their trust becomes my might

iMacBeth

[GQuon]

The new iMacBeth, broght to you by MacOnLinux.
In stylish blood red colors.

Public Domain

[ispivey]

It's straight up public domain, with no strings attached. Not abandonware, certainly, because there's no copyright on it.

Ever wonder what theater these days would be like if Shakespeare's plays were protected under copyright by a control-minded estate like that of Kurt Cobain? I imagine the content would stay truer to the originals, but I'm a big fan of the creative and nutty derivative works Shakespeare has inspired over the years.

Re:Public Domain

[Mr. Bad Example]

I imagine the content would stay truer to the originals

The problem there is that there really aren't any definitive versions of the originals--playwrights back in the day used to give their work over to professional copyists who would introduce their own errors, for one thing. For another, a lot of the plays weren't actually published until after Shakespeare's death, and a lot of those were taken from different performing copies. Ask just about any English literature major about the various quartos and folios and so on.

I know, I know...a Shakespeare geek is me.

Re:Public Domain

[punchdrunk]

And of course many of Shakespeare's plays were based on much older public domain material.

Re:Public Domain

[Anonymous Coward]

The vast majority of plays that are attributed to Shakespeare would be considered by modern copyright lawyers "derivative works". He borrowed/stole liberally from all kinds of sources including contemporary writers. Most of his plays are pretty easy to trace back to other sources. To add to the complexity, there was also quite a bit of "tuning" that went on with his work between copies and during rehersal as both playwright and actors tweaked lines.

An excellent source for information about this subject is the "Riverside Shakespeare". Your local university library almost certainly has a copy.

Re:Public Domain

[northstarlarry]

I know, I know...a Shakespeare geek is me.

Wow! That's even iambic pentameter! Pretty good!

Re:Public Domain

[Mr. Bad Example]

Wow! That's even iambic pentameter!

The really sick part is that I didn't even realize I'd done that until you pointed it out to me.

On a related note...

[Mr. Bad Example]

I've always liked to quote the following when people ask me what software development is like:

"...we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor..."

--Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII

shakespeare parser

[Miguel de Icaza]

sorry if this is going offtopic. but reading about this reminded me of a paper I read a few years back... It was about a computer program that parsed the full text of shakespears lifes work and then could predict the probability that a play or part of a play was infact not written by shakespeare. The program was used to independantly prove a hypothisis long held by scholars about some of the sonnets. Can't seem to find this interesting topic anyware on google - anyone remember it?

Probably the tech was bought up by the CIA and classified - could be being used to verify identities of known persons in transcripts of discussions intelligence intercepts in bagdad right now.

Re:shakespeare parser

[belbo]

You mean this?

Re:shakespeare parser

[Miguel de Icaza]

many thanks

Re:shakespeare parser

[efflux]

I can foresee a number of problems with this.

Mainly, you have to be sure that the canon you feed it is actually entirely written by the author.

Since: 1) The Shakespeare texts were pieced together by actors in the plays--each only having their own cue's and their own lines (and who knows what changes slipped in during this process
2) Since the authorship of some of the peices have been question -- which is the whole point of doing this right -- how do you know what you fed is actually part of shakespeare's canon
and 3) Since the program works mainly counting the frequency and type of certain devices (language, imagery, etc), and since Shakespeare's works are so incredibly varied

it may be very difficult to achieve accurate results.

OT: Fonts are different?

[antdude]

Is me or are the fonts different on this /. story in Mozilla v1.3?

Hmmm.

[Boing]

What rhymes with XDirectFB?

Re:Hmmm.

[KingBuggo]

"What rhymes with XDirectFB?"

Kwanzaa

All the web's a stage

[arvindn]

All the www's a stage,
And all the web designers and database admins merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one programmer in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the n00b,
Drooling and clicking on his brother's comp.
And then the whining freshman, with his pirated WinXP
And shining new imac, lugging his laptop
Unwillingly to class. And then the coder,
Cursing like furnace, with a woeful sigh
On the night of the deadline. Then a hacker,
Full of strange perl scripts and bearded like RMS,
Jealous in GNU/honor, sudden and quick in attacking M$,
Seeking the wizard reputation
Even in the economic downturn. And then the guru,
In fair round belly with long flowing hair,
With eyes severe and beard uncut,
Full of wise one-liners and modern programming paradigms;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful PDP11 code, well saved, now obsolete
On his rusting i686; and his quick nerdy keystrokes,
Falling again toward newbie typing speeds, null pointers
And unmatched parentheses in his code. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans keyboard, sans monitor, sans processor, sans everything.

Didn't get it? Read Shakespeare's original

new topic

[jonnyfivealive]

now, ive only been on /. for 6 mos or so, but i would imagine that that topic pic had to be made expecially for this story... how many times does theater come up on /.?

Re:new topic

[MightyMaus]

(Pssssst )

Re:new topic

[marnerd]

Thath's their generic symbol for "the arts" and has been used at least four times recently. Just click on it...

Re:new topic

[evilviper]

The topic is "ENTERTAINMENT"... If you disable topic icons you would see that for yourself.

I pitty the moderators that gave you +1.

Re:new topic

[jonnyfivealive]

wow, im wondering whether i should even reply to someone with such a dark, scary nick...am i safe?

perhaps those moderators dont take it quite as seriously as some of the mod nazis around here. maybe they even agreed with me, because im not the only one to notice that that topic doesnt make it out much. maybe i dont want to disable the topic icons, maybe i like those pretty little things!!!my sincere appologies for not doing an exhaustive search on the matter before i so foolhardedly used my freedom of speech to ask a simple question. just think of all the grief i could have saved... mr quasi-evil piper, will you forgive me?

Re:new topic

[evilviper]

dark, scary nick...am i safe?

I don't see the problem.

perhaps those moderators dont take it quite as seriously

The point of moderation is to highlight posts with interesting content... not to save someone from spending 5 seconds to find something out.

maybe i dont want to disable the topic icons

I never suggested you do. In fact, you could have hovered your cursor over the icon for a couple seconds and read the alt text to find out what the toric was.

to ask a simple question.

It wasn't the question. There are tons of useless posts on slashdot. What surprises me is that it got moderated up. I'm still not sure why. Yours is the very type of comment the "Offtopic" rating is designed for.

Re:new topic

[jonnyfivealive]

wow, so much white space.


not that its even worth this much effort, but...

If you disable topic icons you would see that for yourself.

and ive clearly repented of not hovering or clicking on it to see what it was. i merely commented that i hadnt seen it very much. good lord, are you always this uptight? one more thing, i even happen to agree that my post was not worth modding up even one little point, but it was surely not offtopic

Re:new topic

[evilviper]

wow, so much white space.

That's just what 'blockquote' does, blame your browser for rendering so much whitespace for a blockquote, the HTML spec for having the extra space, or slashdot for not allowing alternative tags that might work better.... Take your pick.

are you always this uptight?

Strange... You seem to agree with me, but then have to act like I'm insane. I don't know what to tell you.

Wrong old story...

[gmuslera]

... instead a millon monkeys on typewriters to reproduce all shakespeare books, all they need are penguins.

Forget Macbeth, go with Hamlet

[devphil]

Use C, or not use C, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The flags and warnings of a rude compiler,
Or to take arms against a sea of errors,
And by debugging, fix them? To code, to hack,
No more; and by a hack to say we end
The type-check and the thousand other checks
Pascal is heir to, 'tis a compilation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To code, to hack;
To hack! perchance to test: ay, there's the rub;
For in that hacker's bliss what bugs may come,
When we have written out this awful code,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes development of such long life.

My notes credit this gem to Wes Munsil.

The ASCII Play

[certron]

I just hope there are no mysterious goings-on while the play is being downloaded/performed. Is it even safe to use the name, however l33t0rized, as the actual title?

Maybe they should call it "The ASCII Play"

(I haven't read the article, I suppose the FB and VLC and others can be used as video players, and maybe everyone doesn't think that watching The Matrix using a high-res aalib window is really cool.)

Re:The ASCII Play

[fgodfrey]

The superstition allows you to use the title as long as you're performing it. However, I was a little bit nervous when I stage managed Macbeth on Friday the 13th... Fortunately, no actors required major medical attention after the sword fights :)

Now, Slashdot may have some trouble since they have now used the name without the performance so if you read that a fire destroyed all the computers in the /. cage and no other equipment, don't be surprised :)

In all fairness

[GQuon]

Much like Windows can't.
In all fairness, no conventional computer can do anything without a program.
Many of these cheap shots at Windows would be directed at the most dominant desktop platform anyway. While some wouldn't.
But a computer that asks people "Where do you want to go today." will be hard pressed to keep its promise if the user wants it to gain super powers, merge with the power grid and turn into a mech that could be used to lay waste to Tokyo in a one-mech peace rally.

Re:In all fairness

[Anonymous Coward]

merge with the power grid and turn into a mech that could be used to lay waste to Tokyo in a one-mech peace rally.
That would be piece rally :-)

Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII in Jive...

[joshsnow]

We shall not spend some fat-ass 'espense o' time B4 we reckon wit' yo' several loves, An' make us even wit' yo' ass. Mah thanes an' kinsmen, Hencefort' be earls, da fust dat eva' Scotland In such some honour named. Whut's mo' t' do, Which would be planted newly wit' da damn time, As callin' crib our 'esiled homies abroad Dat fled da damn snares o' watchful tyranny; Producin' fort' da damn cruel minista's O' dis wo'm food butcha' an' wassups fiend-likes queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by self an' violent hands Done took off ha' life; dis, an' whut needful else Dat calls upon us, by da grace o' Grace, We will puh'form in maisure, time an' place, dig dis: So's, thanks t'all at once an' t'aich one, Whom we invite t' spot us crown'd at Scone.

In other news ...

[Greedo]

RSS was kicked out of opening night for complaining that it wasn't called "GNU/MacBeth"

Re:In other news ...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's RMS, Richard Matthew Stallman. GNU/RMS to you.

Re:In other news ...

[daeley]

It's RMS, Richard Matthew Stallman. GNU/RMS to you.

No, he was referring to, er, Richard's cousin, um, Really Simple Stallman. ;)

Re:this is illegal.

[Anonymous Coward]

for those that ANAL (pun intended), Texas Penal Code 30.05 makes it a crime to for a man to engage in anal or oral sex with another man.

well,

[Hubert_Shrump]

I have always wondered how you say "31337" out loud.

I gave up, and just go "three one... you know".

Re:well,

[MegaFur]

I always figured it was pronounced as:
"thirty-one, three, thirty-seven", or
"Ee-leet".

Re:well,

[IncohereD]

> I have always wondered how you say "31337" out loud.

Which kind of makes you the dictionary defintion of a 14m3r.

If you don't know....now you know...

Re:well,

[Fesh]

*chuckle* I happen to be fond of 113440, myself... Ah, the fun that can be had with a mere pocket calculator.

Awful play

[Gantic]

This actual play premiered in my school (Thurston Community College) just outside Bury St. Edmunds. Everyone in the audience (drama students aged 13-18) thought the play was awful, the acting abysmal and the scene where some dodgy old man started making love to an ugly woman on stage terrible. If you're thinking of seeing makb3th (or as we like to pronounce mak-be-three-ith) then think again, it was not a good version of the original macbeth.

Having said that, pretty cool that something in my area got slashdotted, never thought I would see the day! \o/

Re:Awful play

[marXian]

Sorry you didn't have a good time.

Maybe there's a problem with the difference between adaptation and modernisation here. The play's not supposed to be a version of Macbeth - its about a guy who becomes obsessed _with_ Macbeth. So you're right its not a "good version" but then its not really a version at all.
We've had more positive views from others who were in the audience at that preview (though I guess they don't read /.).
You're dead right on one count though - Leighton is a dodgy old man...

Applescript Hamlet

[Anonymous Coward]

For computerized Shakespeare, This is pretty funny:
Hamlet in Applescript
Why? I don't know...

Open up!

[MoobY]

If these guys are so full of being open source, why don't they, for example, open up their chyper-phunk-slanged version of mcbeth for us to read, enjoy, alter if needed. That would be a good sign of giving an open performance.

Re:Open up!

[marXian]

We'll put it up for you in the next few days.
Which license would you suggest? :-)

Re:Open up!

[MoobY]

We'll put it up for you in the next few days.
Which license would you suggest? :-)

I think the artistic license would be something for you artists ...

Fool moderators... the parent is funny

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't understand a post, please just leave it alone.

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Huh?

[Dthoma]

I thought Shakespeare wrote virtually all of his plays, sonnets and poems in blank verse? Didn't he only use the occasional rhyming couple now and then at the end of a scene for emphasis?

Re:Huh?

[Joe the Lesser]

I wasn't trying to copy Shakespeare there, just having fun with rhymes and the given storyline. :)

Re:Huh?

[lblack]

Shakespeare wrote virtually all of his plays in blank verse, relying on couplets to really drive home some of the important concepts (not so much end-of-scenes), although there were a few passages with end-rhymes.

Shakespearean sonnets, however, virtually always carry the rhyme scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG. His most famous sonnet would be:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate,
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dim'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrim'd.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
While in eternal lines to time thou growest.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and gives life to thee.

The beauty of the sonnet lies in the ability to find play within the strictures of it, including the rhyming scheme. Shakespeare was a master of this, as the above indicates -- beyond being a lovely love sonnet, it's also a barb directed towards those who allow the formula of a sonnet to shape a conventional narrative within it.

Liam

Coming to MST3K soon!

[Anonymous Coward]

I sense a MST3K episode featuring this soon...

Oh boy.

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Linux Enhances Shakespeare"

Would Slashdot be interested if I were to create a 'woop-de-doo!' icon?

Re:Oh boy.

[dfj225]

Yea...somehow I don't think streaming ASCII text is going to enhance Shakespeare for me.

Wanna see 27 Shakespeare plays at once....

[SpatialJ]

...in realtime in your VRML-viewer?

Take a look at planethamlet
an AVI of the running app is here

syntax error

[Anonymous Coward]

french_translation("open source drama"):=
"dramaturgie sans droits d'auteur"

Shakespeare is 1337!

[Nova Express]

Here's Macbeth's famous speech, rendered in 1337. I think FARK nailed it when they called leet "cyber-retard."

70M0rr0\\/, 4|\||) 70M0rr0\\/, 4|\||) 70M0rr0\\/ (r33|>5 ||\| 7|-||5 |>377`/ |>4(3 |=r0M |)4`/ 70 |)4`/,(|-|453 570(|00r |>14`/3r 7|-|47 57ru75 4|\||) |=r375 |-||5 |-|0ur u|>0|\| 7|-|3 57493 4|\||) 7|-|3|\| |5 |-|34r|) |\|0 M0r3: |7 |5 4 7413 701|) 8`/ 4|\| ||)|07, |=u11 0|= 50u|\||) 4|\||) |=ur`/, 5|9|\|||=`/||\|9 |\|07|-|||\|9.

[Flash] should have died hereafter...

[dr00g911]

Looks ambitious, and is a great context for adapting Macbeth.

That said, Macbeth is my most favorite of the Bard's plays, and also the play of his that I've acted in 3 productions of... I know the material rather well, you could say.

One of the charms of The Scottish Play is its inherent level of accessibility to just about anyone. The Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (well, witchy, at any rate) factor. The core characters are tragically flawed at a very base level -- human nature: pride, jealousy, lust, ambition, greed and trust. If acted and directed well, the language acts as less of a barrier for entry to this play than many of Shakespeare's works.

Judging by the creative direction choices made in the *cough* "trailer*, production sketches, etc. -- it seems that they're purposefully trying to make it as 1337 and "insider" as possible. Problem is, they really don't seem to get the 1337 part. So, you have a bit of a catch-22. The viewer has to be both 1) very familiar with Macbeth to get the in-joke and 2) a 31337 h4x0r to get the context. Or completely fucked up.

The short of it: if the same creative team is responsible for the production as was responsible for the most abhorrent piece of flash drivel I've seen in a year, I'd sooner volunteer for a full upper GI exploratory than sit through 2 hours of that kind of pain.

That's not to say that tech and Shakespeare can't mate well. Apple has a feature about another version of Macbeth done in the same spirit -- but much less... well... full of itself?

Definitely worth a look if the fusion of tech and theatre intrigues you.

Booring - not /. worthy

[Anonymous Coward]

move along

small font-size in pirateutopia.org

[teko_teko]

pirateutopia.org -> thx god for mozilla text zoom feature :P

yes, IE has it too, but doesn't work as good

my utmost appologies...

[jonnyfivealive]

shiver me timbers, i spose i just never noticed the icon itself, because i remember most of those stories... ah well

Damn!

[toph42]

I was hoping I wasn't the only one completely baffled here.

I guess I'm just the only one who will speak up with something other than a bard quote.

Simply put, I browsed the site and I'm boggled.

Redundant ha

[Anonymous Coward]

Hardly a Redundant post if it generates this much attention. The poster brings up a nice brain teaser. The Moderator is a fool.

ekrout tired of his $$$$exygal persona

[Anonymous Coward]

... so is this the new one?

wrmst rgds,
yo mama.

troll cv

[Anonymous Coward]

most recent troll was founding the ever-so-slightly-notorius short-lived "why i want .net to fail and fail badly" first post munch weblog, that (and i'm quite proud of this) seemingly brought to a halt the spate of 'directly MS sponsored' c#/.NET/j#/vb# stories in the developer section of /.

What's a sirname?

[Moses Lawn]

Sirname - you know, "Sir Richard", "Sir Arthur", "Sir Myron".

My two cents, adjusted for inflation

[Moses Lawn]

From the project site:


>On an abandoned oil platform in the North Sea, a community of libertarian cypher-punks establish the world's first free data haven:


Great. Shalkespeare redone in leetspeek as a William Gibson clone. I think I can safely skip this one. "Cypher-punk" is just soo 1994 Wired anyway, isn't it?

For a more accessible reworking of Macbeth, the other night I watched Scotland, PA, set in a hamburger restaurant in rural Pennsylvania in the 1970's. James LeGros as Macbeth, Christopher Walken in goofy mode as McDuff, the homicide detective. Lots of great Bad Company music and, for some reason, everybody drives an ~1970 Camaro. Funny (Duncan meets a most unfortunate end), and, as near as I can tell, holds very close to the original story.

Romeo and Juliet in L33T speak

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is a shockwave animation of Romeo and Juliet in the L33Tified style of online chatting.

Shakespeare discredited

[torqumada]

Hope that you realize Shakespeare is not the Author. Most if not all was written by De-vere instead..

aalib:

[m1chael]

"to b a b or not to b, a b? that is the question..."

Marathon-Esque

[Goldfinger7400]

Does this remind anyone else of the terminals in Bungie's Marathon series? Specifically the messed up poetry ones that confused the hell out of me when I played it as a kid. It's certainly an interesting way to present art, whatever the heck that art is.

---
"Orbis non suficit"

bah. the mac's way ahead of you once again

[option8]

as for computerized shakespeare, i prefer hamlet. :)

after all, human actors are all so finicky and outdated.

plus, there's nothing quite like hearing zarvox give the pronouncement that "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead!"

Re:ouvrez le th��tre de source

[dvdeug]

public domain (copyright expired, and copyright didn't even exist until the 1700s)

Wrong. Shakespeare was actually under copyright, and was one of the first major copyright battles, as the publishers wanted the copyright on Shakespeare to last forever.

Last Post!

[alpg]

I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than
first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then
I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts')
-- Olaf Kirch

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