Category Archives: Musings

Open Shakespeare Out of Hibernation

Posted on June 4, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

Exam season is finishing, our free time is returning, and Open Shakespeare is coming back to life. We held a short meeting yesterday evening, and can now announce what we intend to do in the near future: EXPAND: there will … Continue reading →

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Open Shakespeare at OKCON

Posted on April 27, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

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

Posted on April 15, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

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

Posted on April 6, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

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 →

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Shakespeare Quarterly

Posted on April 2, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

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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Editions

Posted on March 15, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

There’s a famous line in Hamlet: “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (1.ii.129). Not only is it the start of an agonised soliloquy in which Hamlet tortures himself over his mother’s apparent desire for her dead husband’s … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud

Posted on March 13, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

What do you get when you combine wordle.net with the most famous speech Shakespeare ever wrote? This: Leave us a comment with your guess as to the speech and speaker …

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Musings on Technology

Posted on February 23, 2010 by James Harriman-Smith

I’ve just been reading my way through the transcript of Coleridge’s lectures on Shakespeare: they are an absolutely fascinating insight into past critical preconceptions, and contain the first seeds of many ideas we now take for granted, such as, for … Continue reading →

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