Eye of newt, and toe of frog
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt defends the company’s tax affairs after it comes in for strong criticism from MPs.
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“Eye of newt, and toe of frog” quoted from Macbeth
To Be Today
A Shakespearean twist on the events of the day
The course of true love never did run smooth
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges North Korea to end its missile tests after test firing three short-range missiles on Saturday.
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“The course of true love never did run smooth” quoted from A Midsummer Night's Dream
In time the rod becomes more mocked than feared
Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan’s PTI party, is blaming one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI official Zahra Shadid Hussain.
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“In time the rod becomes more mocked than feared” quoted from Measure for Measure
“Every day we are presented with world stories through news feeds on multiple platforms. We are confronted with the atrocities of civil war, the consequences of forbidden love, betrayal and power – these challenges of the human condition all shared in Shakespeare’s plays.
To Be Today by Brendan Dawes captures news stories and frames them in Shakespeare’s words by matching the text written centuries ago with a beautifully crafted algorithm using today’s technologies. As the Royal Shakespeare Company explores new ways to interpret Shakespeare, this work shares the connections with our past and the present – the players, the characters, the plots and the observations captured in Shakespeare’s writing connect with us today.”
– Sarah Ellis, Digital Producer RSC.
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To Be Today is a My Shakespeare Commission, produced in 2012 by the Royal Shakespeare Company on the occasion of the World Shakespeare Festival, which the company is producing on behalf of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd.
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