Hot off the press from Reuters comes the exciting news that all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641 are going online: Shakespeare goes digital:
The process of downloading the quartos will begin next month and take a year to complete. Online visitors will be able to compare images side-by-side, lay one facsimile on top of the other, search plays and mark and tag the texts.
Writing about Shakespeare is a well that never seems to run dry. 2007 saw the publication of a book on Shakespeare in the Eminent Lives series – written by Bill Bryson. The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street looked at an incident when William was prosecuted for not paying his rent. The famous Australian feminist Germaine Greer looked at the life of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife.
In 2008, there are also some neat new unabridged graphic novels of Shakespearean plays arriving at the library from Classical Comics.
More Shakespeare links for all you bardolators:
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Shakespeare - links to Shakespeare sites from our gateway to the internet
20 May 2008 at 5:32 pm
Another Great Historical, graphic Novel, is AMBROGIO BECCARRIA?! it’s
quite captivating!
Click THIS for a preview!
Thanx – ‘a friend’, of Jonathan M. Prince
(the author & artist of ‘Ambrogio Beccarria’, and Owner of Calicuchima Press),
at illustrationISM