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Comment on ‘Touching this vision’: Comments on Producing Shakespeare Visualisations by GovHack 2012, crowdsourced crisis mapping, and other news | OKFN:LOCAL Australia

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:10:12 +0000

[...] posts about these visualisations and the process of producing them can be viewed at Open Shakespeare. Open Shakespeare also provides Shakespeare’s plays and [...]

Comment on Shakespeare Visualised by GovHack 2012, crowdsourced crisis mapping, and other news | OKFN:LOCAL Australia

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:07:56 +0000

[...] posts about these visualisations and the process of producing them can be viewed at Open Shakespeare. Open Shakespeare also provides [...]

Comment on Shakespeare Visualised by ‘Touching this vision’: Comments on Producing Shakespeare Visualisations | Open Shakespeare

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:59:11 +0000

[...] Shakespeare‘s plays and Middleton‘s. These public-domain visualisations were discussed on Open Shakespeare recently, and Pat has kindly written the following description of his own methodology, with some thoughts on [...]

Comment on Word of the Day: Nonce by James Harriman-Smith

James Harriman-Smith — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:05:01 +0000

...And one further meaning of 'nonce', not from Shakespeare's time but rather our own, and looking back to the original Old English sense of one:

a number used once in HTTP Digest Authentication

Comment on David Pearce, Freedom of Narrative by Hugh Richmond

Hugh Richmond — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:40:37 +0000

I have no objection to adapted Shakespeare, however radical, indeed the original Reduced Shakespeare Company included one of my best students: I thought their abbreviated “Hamlets” were terrific, including the ten-second one. But I do note that many other adaptations tend to make Shakespeare merely depressing (witness Bond’s vision). The assumption is that modern audiences are preferably addressed as masochists. While I can guess how Edgar was omitted by the Propaganda Co., despite his persistence as Poor Tom, it is obvious that it was the two most positive characters in the play who were suppressed. The best modernization of “Lear” I have seen was rephrased in “Waiting for Godot” terms (with boots) and was enormously funny, as that play should be too. I do not go to the theatre merely to be depressed, shocked, or offended, and I am baffled that anyone else would pay heavily to be so. Theatre is primarily entertainment not shock therapy.

Comment on Erin Weinberg, Why do I blog about Shakespeare? It’s a Choice by Kendall

Kendall — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:33:37 +0000

Check the new movie ‘Anonymous’! It would be something great to write about. I think it will be a interesting watch. http://youtu.be/2PaliLAQT8k

Comment on Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim, Good Night, Tweet Prince by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:30:40 +0000

Any news about the new film ‘Anonymous’? It looks like it will be an interesting watch! I’ve seen the trailer many times.http://www.sonypictures.com/previews/movies/anonymous/clips/3720/

Comment on Erin Weinberg, Why do I blog about Shakespeare? It’s a Choice by Shakespeare and the Internet | Open Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Internet | Open Shakespeare — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:58:24 +0000

[...] Monday 26th September: Erin Weinberg, Why do I blog about Shakespeare? It’s a Choice [...]

Comment on Sylvia Morris, Finding Needles in Haystacks: Shakespeare and the Internet by Shakespeare and the Internet | Open Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Internet | Open Shakespeare — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:23:59 +0000

[...] Having already read the majority of the contributions, I can say now that the series fulfils its goal of offering what the Bard would call a “multitudinous” range of approaches to the topic of Shakespeare and the Internet; subjects range from why Polonius would appreciate hypertext to the problems and opportunities of online abundance. Please feel free to make use of the comments section at the bottom of each article, and to carry on in this space the points for debate that each article raises. The contributions will appear in the following order: Monday 12th September: Sylvia Morris, Finding Needles in Haystacks: Shakespeare and the Internet [...]

Comment on Heather Nolen, “The wise man reads both books and life itself” by Patrick Wheat

Patrick Wheat — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:32:19 +0000

You're absolutely right that we all have to change with the times. I found my e-reader to be an incredible disappointment. Not only was the interface clumsy and distracting from the enjoyment of the book, but the pricing of books on an e-reader sometimes offers no advantage to that of buying an actual book. Why would I pay the same price for an electronic version of something I can never loan out or share? Like any new technology e-readers have both benefits and drawbacks. I will use my e-reader to download PDF files (although it is poor at displaying those as well) and free books, but keep buying regular old books for most of my reading. I just ordered an old book about rocket propulsion that is a wonderful science book!