I could post all these videos individually, but why not just check out the album.
These performances are from The Sonnets By William Shakespeare for iPad. Find out more at thesonnets.tv
Previous mentions of this app: here and here.
(Source: thesonnets.tv)
The Verge have posted quite a good review of the Shakespeare’s Sonnets iPad App now available to buy. My previous post on the app can be found here. It may seems a bit pricey to some at $14.99 (price at the Australian iTunes store, check your local store for details), but it’s worth it particularly if you’re studying Shakespeare.
The Live Beta version of the Eye Shakespeare App by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is now available for download. Aimed primarily at visitors to Stratford (though it can be accessed anywhere in the world), Eye Shakespeare is an interactive app that provides Shakespeare related information about Stratford, including prominent places to visit, such as Shakespeare’s birthplace and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other information related to your trip to Stratford, such as where to eat, a calendar of local events etc.
It’s well worth downloading this app and providing comments so the creators can improve the functionality of the app. I’ve already found out there’s a Shakespeare film festival in Stratford in October, something I didn’t know until I used the app!
A new sonnet related app from Touch Press, Faber and Faber, Illuminations and The Arden Shakespeare will be released on 11 June. The Shakespeare Sonnet’s iPad app includes all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets performed by actors such as Dominic West, Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, and David Tennant. As well as performances of each sonnet (you can see more examples at the app website), the app also includes the complete Arden notes. These come from the most recent Arden edition (first published 1997, revised 2010), edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor at Somerville College, Oxford.
Luminary Digital Media’s new iPad version of The Tempest includes: expert commentaries, a full-length audio reading synchronised with the text, illustrations, podcasts and video from The Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection, and ties in a Facebook group to discuss the play. It’s also fully customisable, so you can turn features off and on.
![I want this because of reasons.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets iPad app featuring David Tennant coming soon
Faber and Faber, Touch Press, Illuminations and The Arden Shakespeare are delighted to announce that they are in the final stages of producing a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad. The title features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a stellar cast that includes Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. It also features the complete Arden notes, providing unsurpassed commentary on the poems.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets iPad app featuring David Tennant coming soon
Faber and Faber, Touch Press, Illuminations and The Arden Shakespeare are delighted to announce that they are in the final stages of producing a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad. The title features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a stellar cast that includes Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. It also features the complete Arden notes, providing unsurpassed commentary on the poems.
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I stand by the inclusion of No Fear Shakespeare. As someone who has taught Shakespeare for a number of years, any tool that helps a student understand what’s going on is useful. I’m not saying only use them, I’m saying use them in conjunction with reading/performing Shakespeare’s play-texts. Furthermore, sure they’re translations (and I’ll admit they aren’t all fantastic), but any production/adaptation of Shakespeare is also a translation - one person’s interpretation of the source text. As long as teachers point this out to students before they use No Fear (and other tools like it), then I have no problem with their use in the classroom. I’m an advocate at using whatever is at your disposal when teaching Shakespeare (I know I do), including film, pop culture, graphic novels, children’s literature etc. It’s one of the reasons I created this blog - a veritable catalogue of fun and informative items to use when I teach. What I am against is 1) bad teaching practices, where teachers can’t be bothered to put in any effort to teaching something because it might be difficult and 2) lazy students who can’t be bothered to learn - which is often because they don’t understand. I’m sure the folks at thatsnotshakespeare probably won’t agree with my defence of No Fear, given their recent posts, but that’s what makes the world interesting, the variety of opinions. ;)A list of useful Shakespeare related apps. I’d add the Manga Shakespeare and IDW apps to the list. The latter allows you to download the first 2 issues of Kill Shakespeare for free.
And I would wish the “Shakespeare Made Easy” and “No Fear” REMOVED from this list. No. No. No. No. No. Teaching the translation is NOT teaching Shakespeare. Allowing the translation condescends. But I’ve ranted this before…
A list of useful Shakespeare related apps. I’d add the Manga Shakespeare and IDW apps to the list. The latter allows you to download the first 2 issues of Kill Shakespeare for free.
The British Library’s remarkable ‘eBook Treasures’ series allows users to explore some of the British Library’s most treasured manuscripts in detail, together with text, video and audio interpretation. Developed with Armadillo Systems, our eBook Treasures are viewable in full-screen high-definition, with realistic page-turning capabilities and, once downloaded, can be read offline. They can be read on the iPad, iPhone (3GS and 4) and iPod Touch (3rd and 4th generations).
William Shakespeare’s First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and was published in 1623, seven years after his death. This enhanced edition includes audio extracts from the plays, with the 17th century pronunciation Shakespeare would have heard.
