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Michael Billington on Shakespeare on TV by Michael Billington

'My plan for how the Bard could rule TV'Did you catch Rupert Goold's Macbeth on telly on Sunday night? Probably not. For a start, it was tucked away on BBC4. It was also up against The X Factor, which dominates media attention. But then we live in a barmy, upside-down world where Simon Cowell is considered to be more significant than Shakespeare.If Macbeth was a TV triumph, it was for two reasons. One is that Goold, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM on December 15, 2010

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