The Bodleian Library in Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC are to put all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays from before 1641 online.
The quartos are the earliest printed editions of the plays and are the closest to what Shakespeare actually wrote still in existence.
The project is intended to give the public greater acccess to the plays and downloading of the quartos will begin next month.
Online users will be able to compare and study the texts, which are the earliest sources for the 37 plays Shakespeare is known to have written.
"There will be countless new ways for scholars, teachers, and students to examine the quarto texts, particularly of 'Hamlet'," Folger library director Gail Kern Paster told Reuters.
"You find out all sorts of things - about how the copies went through the press, and also about the printing process," she added.
Monday 23 June 2008
Monday 16 June 2008
Robert Downey Jr - Downey Jr Finds Salvation With Fast Food
IRON MAN star ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has publicly thanked fast food chain Burger King for helping him overcome his personal problems and resurrect his film career.
In 2003, the actor - who, at the time, was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol - was driving a car filled with "tons of f**king dope" on California's Pacific Coast Highway when he decided to stop at the burger joint for a meal.
And the trip to the fastfood outlet caused him to re-evaluate his whole life.
He says, "I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen."
According to Britain's Empire magazine, Downey Jr. proceeded to throw all his drugs into the ocean, resolving to clean up his act then and there.
The actor goes on to hint that a fateful moment in new movie Iron Man, when his character Tony Stark requests a cheeseburger from Burger King after being released from his captors, is a reference to his own experiences.
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Friday 6 June 2008
Sex and the City Sells At U.S. Box Office
As expected, 'Sex and the City: The Movie' was the biggest drawcard at US cinema's this past weekend,with the film raking in US$55.7 million at the box office and setting a new record.
Sarah Jessica Parker and co have triumphantly returned to their old characters and exceeded expectations with their box office success, with the release marking the best ever debut of an R-rated comedy and smashing Warner Bros. hopes of bringing in US$30 million in it's first weekend.
Dan Fellman, head of distribution for the company told The Associated Press, "Women power. It was outstanding this weekend."
'Sex and the City:The Movie' has become the fifth biggest R-rated movie opening of all-time, with 'The Matrix Reloaded' coming in at number 1 with US$91.8 million.
Rumors have begun circulating that a sequel is already in the works, however, Parker has refused to confirm or deny the stories, telling CNN, "My gut tells me it's up to you and your colleagues and the critics and the people who show up... So anything beyond that is really kind of out of our hands in a perfectly wonderful way."
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