Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Linux Enhances Shakespeare

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

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 ;)

3 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. MacBeth, not Hamlet by Jan-Pascal · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Re:Public Domain by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. On a related note... by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 4, Informative

    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