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Minutes of Meeting: 2011-04-30

Present: JHS, RP To do: Publish a ‘state of the project post’ on OKFN blog Publicise site through contact with other projects: www.delightedbeauty.org, www.shakespeareinsmalldoses.com Publicise site: unis (NFP, fun for summer), Call For Papers Investigate kickstarter Organise May Week event, … Continue reading

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Open Shakespeare: March and April

Annotation Sprint II Our second annotation sprint, taking place at the end of Cambridge University term attracted contributions from all over the internet, particularly from the States. In Cambridge itself, our volunteers continued working on Hamlet, bringing the total number … Continue reading

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Announcing…Annotation Sprint II

Change Criticism Forever – Participate in the next Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint Our modus operandi is the same as ever: all the instructions are here. Following on from the first annotation sprint, we will be annotating Hamlet On Saturday 19th … Continue reading

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Announcing Annotation Sprint

Change Criticism Forever – Participate in the Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint The votes are in! We are annotating Hamlet This weekend we’re holding the first Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint — participate and help change criticism forever! We’ll be getting together … 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

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Open Shakespeare Out of Hibernation

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

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

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

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