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Minutes of Meeting: 2011-2-13
Present: JHS, JB, RP Annotation Sprint Overall, a success, but could certainly benefit from an extended period of build-up and publicity. A radio report on the event can be found here: http://www.camfm.co.uk/player/player.php?epid=754 TCS (The Cambridge Student Newspaper) published an article … Continue reading
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How to Participate in the Annotation Sprint
The votes are in! We are annotating Hamlet Until 11:30am you can: Vote for the play to be annotated Any feedback, or thoughts? Use the etherpad to leave your thoughts about the event. How to Participate Step 0: Check your … Continue reading
Online Editions of Shakespeare
The story of Shakespeare on the internet is a tangled tale, and this post is an attempt to unravel it. In expounding the advantages and shortcomings of online editions, I hope also to explain a few of the problems Open … Continue reading
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Shakespeare and Media
I spent much of this afternoon perusing the materials available at Shakespeare’s Staging, after its director got in touch with Open Shakespeare. Amongst all the images of past productions, my favourite was one of the earliest: a drawing of Edward … Continue reading
Open Shakespeare at OKCON
Last weekend was OKCON, and I delivered a 15 minute introduction to Open Shakespeare there. Little of what I said was new, and the real interest for me came from the discussions I had with other conference-goers during the day. … Continue reading
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Cardenio or Double Falsehood
There’s been a bit of a stir in the Shakespearian community recently, what with the release of a new play by the Bard. To be fair, it is not quite so sensational as it sounds: the possibility that part of … Continue reading
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Shakespeare Quarterly part II
Here, for those interested, is my response to Professor Andrew Murphy’s article in the Shakespeare Quarterly: “I am a member of the Open Shakespeare Project (www.openshakespeare.org – not to be confused with Open Source Shakespeare) and found this article extremely … Continue reading
Shakespeare Quarterly
We received an email from The Shakespeare Quarterly a while back asking for our responses to an online edition of the journal, entitled “Shakespeare and New Media”. The articles cover everything from the online presence of Shakespeare institutions to the … Continue reading
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Annotation is here!
The fabled ability to annotate any text of Shakespeare is now part of the Open Shakespeare website! Massive thanks to Nick for all his work on something far too complex for me to even describe its complexity (apparently there were … Continue reading
Facebook, Newspaper Article, and Other Things
The Open Shakespeare Project has been getting some more publicity recently: we have founded a facebook group, with an amazing picture; and a student newspaper, Varsity, has published an article on our work. In other news, I need to point … Continue reading