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As we begin our exploration, it's useful to consider some of the goals behind the resources you're reading. For each organization, it's worth considering who they are, what their mission is, and what their goals might be with these different materials.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is located in Stratford-on-Avon, England, with a primary mission to preserve the historic properties associated with Shakespeare. You can see the scope of their work as a research and teaching institution as well if you look around on their website.
Their podcast series brings experts in various sub-fields of Shakespeare studies into conversation and makes their research findings fairly accessible to a more general audience. While you listen to this podcast, or another from their offerings, who do you think is the imagined audience? What expectations do the speakers have about what their listeners already know about Shakespeare? Does that align with what you've already encountered?
Many other podcasts, blogs, and other sorts of lively engagement with Shakespeare abound. You might listen, for example, to the conversations at A Bit Lit or That Shakespeare Life
Shakespeare Documented supported an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. As with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, their business is Shakespeare research, teaching, and performance. What overlap do you see in their methods? Do, or how do, their missions diverge?
The materials highlighted here have different ends as well. Shakespeare Documented gathers together primary sources and digitizes them to make these one-of-a-kind documents readily available to viewers around the world. Who, especially, do you think will use these materials? How might you make use of them? What else do you want to know, to understand them better or work with them more effectively?
Shakespeare Resources: [materials marked with an asterisk will be in ELMS]
William Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet (available on line, free, at Folger Digital Editions, www.folgerdigitaltexts.org) [note: if you want to purchase editions of the plays, you can usually find them used; I especially like Folger editions because they include synopses and definitions on facing pages with the text. But any edition will do, and these online ones are very handy]
Andrew Dickson, The Globe Guide to Shakespeare (Bell and Bain Publishing, distributed by W. W. Norton & Co, 2016); we'll read an excerpt "Shakespeare's Life" (in ELMS), and Dickson offers useful information on the plays and adaptations as well.
Christopher Lloyd, deviser, Nick Walton, author, Andy Forshaw, illustrator, The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook (2014. What on Earth Publishing, 2016)*
Shakespeare in Love, written by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard, directed by John Madden (1998)*
Macbeth, directed by Teller & Aaron Posner (DVD included in the Folger edition of Macbeth)*
Excerpts from the Shakespeare in Mzansi TV series, South Africa, 2006:*
Entabeni*
Death of a Queen*
selections from graphic versions of Macbeth:
Julien Choy, artist; Crystal S. Chan, story adaptation, Manga Classics Macbeth. (Manga Classics, Inc., 2018)*
Gareth Hinds, Macbeth (2015)*
John McDonald, script adaptation; John Howard, artwork; Clive Bryant, editor, Macbeth: The Graphic Novel (original text version. 2008. Classical Comics, 2017)*
From the UMD Libraries:
Research Guide: Shakespeare
Research Guide: Shakespeare in Special Collections
Research Guide: Literary & Cultural Studies: https://lib.guides.umd.edu/literature
Research Guide: Medieval & Renaissance Music History: https://lib.guides.umd.edu/earlymusic
Research Guide: Theater at Special Collections in Performing Arts https://lib.guides.umd.edu/theater_SCPA
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