Town seeks Shakespeare Developer — Stratford Star

I couldn’t pass up the headline. Being the geek I am I saw it and immediately my brain flooded with all my past ideas about computer programs that intermix the complete works of the Bard, and somebody actually wanting to pay for them.

Too good to be true. Turns out that they want construction people to bid on restoring and operating their American Shakespeare Theatre.

Ok, here’s a game that I just thought up while decoding some filenames on my computer. How well do you know your Shakespeare canon? Can you tell the title of a play just by the first letters? For instance TTOHPOD is The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Every word (including the/a/of…) is included. Got it? Good.

TT
TTGOV
PPOT
AMND
TTOOTMOV
TLOTOA
TNOWYW
C
LLL
MFM
TFPOHTF
TSPOHTF
TLADOKJ
TTOC
TFHOTLOKHTE

Duane

Look what I found on ebay today when hunting for Shakespeare stuff! 1685 RARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FOURTH FOLIO Plays Poems

Sounds silly to see such a thing on eBay, but the pictures are very nice. I wonder if it’s legit? No bids at time I’m posting this.

I like this story about innovative classroom technology on a number of levels. In college I studied technology for the classroom. So stories like this that touch on all the latest and greatest — RSS, blogs, wiki, Flickr, etc… — catch my attention. I think it’s all a good thing.

Why on this blog, though? Look at the project that is described:

Students selected a Shakespearean sonnet and conceptualized a digital presentation that conveyed a particular interpretation. Using PowerPoint, students divided the sonnet as they wished, selected images and music for their interpretation, and designed the layout. Some students interpreted the text with their families in mind, building family pictures into their presentation. On every level, Amtower said, the students were engaged.

Technology in the classroom? Cool. Technology being used to teach non technical subjects, like Shakespeare? Triple cool.

During some search engine browsing I stumbled across this page containing a zillion pictures of the Globe Theatre that somebody obviously took during a trip. They’re from all sorts of angles, inside and out, distance and close up. Nice to have a fresh look at this sort of thing.

Also posted because it comes from Gweepnet, which is the brainchild of some of my fellow alum at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Great Shakespeare program, given that it’s an engineering school. I saw “The Tempest” while there. Hi, Professor Vick!