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Chapter 13 - Reimagining Shakespeare, Linking Archives and the ‘Living Variorum’

from Part IV - Digital Reimaginings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

By
Peter S. Donaldson
Edited by
Liam E. Semler ,
Claire Hansen  and
Jacqueline Manuel
Liam E. Semler
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Claire Hansen
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Jacqueline Manuel
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
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Summary

Borrowing a term from Larry Friedlander’s 1991 essay on the future of Shakespeare study in the digital age, “Shakespeare, Linking Archives, and the ‘Living Variorum’” argues that while extensive online Shakespeare archives and collections now exist, the future of online Shakespeare education might be well served by recalling the ambition of the pioneering pre-Web cross-media projects, and by: (1) expanding and linking existing archives in such a way that a student, researcher or anyone else interested in Shakespeare can access materials relevant to a line of text across all available media classes — text, commentaries, digital facsimiles of early editions, works of art and videos of performances and films; and (2) focus educational initiatives on the expanded possibilities, including support for student creation of multimedia essays, discussions and pathways that reading and writing across media in such a linked archives can provide. The chapter provides examples of such cross-media reading by drawing on existing projects including the MIT Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive and Shakespeare Electronic Archive as well as HamletWorks, and Understanding Shakespeare to create sample pathways a student or researcher might take through key moments in Hamlet variant texts, illustrations, commentaries, and videos drawn from productions and films from the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Russia.

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Reimagining Shakespeare Education
Teaching and Learning through Collaboration
 , pp. 209 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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