{"id":684,"date":"2016-10-27T16:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/?p=684"},"modified":"2020-03-28T17:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:58:03","slug":"tedxfindhorn-talk-cameron-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/2016\/10\/tedxfindhorn-talk-cameron-taylor","title":{"rendered":"TEDx Findhorn Talk by Cameron Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>William Shakespeare&#8217;s tragic drama <em>Macbeth<\/em> is one of the best known works of literature in the world, and the character Macbeth is the archetypal anti-hero. When, in Act Three, Banquo asks Macbeth how far it is to Forres, few of the audience know that Forres is a real place and Macbeth a real &#8211; and profoundly misunderstood &#8211; man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Cameron Taylor as he uncovers his research on The Real Macbeth, last Celtic King of Alba, and explore the reasons for the differences between fact and fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>YouTube: On the Trail of The Real Macbeth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"video-container\"><figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OboJ0B4Wub4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>About Cameron Taylor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Orkney, &#8216;beside the oceans of time&#8217; as the late George Mackay Brown so lyrically put it, Cameron Taylor is a writer, historian and consultant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work on transmedia storytelling led him into a journey of discovery on the trail of the real Macbeth leading to a book, a documentary and almost to his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organised by a local community. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\/tedx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ted.com\/tedx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare&#8217;s tragic drama Macbeth is one of the best known works of literature in the world, and the character Macbeth is the archetypal anti-hero. When, in Act Three, Banquo asks Macbeth how far it is to Forres, few of the audience know that Forres is a real place and Macbeth a real &#8211; and &hellip;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/2016\/10\/tedxfindhorn-talk-cameron-taylor\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about TEDx Findhorn Talk by Cameron Taylor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18,33,40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therealmacbeth.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}