interactive shakespeare - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:48:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Sourcebooks Brings Shakespeare into the 21st Century In a move to make Shakespeare more appealing to students, Sourcebooks’ has built The Shakesperience, an interactive collection of classic Shakespeare made for kids who have kids who have grown up with DVD extras and iPads.

AppNewser has more: “The interactive eBooks, which were created using iBooks Author, bring Shakespeare’s plays to live with legendary performances that  are embedded alongside the text. Tracks from actors including: Kenneth Branagh, Orson Welles, and Sir Laurence Olivier are among them. The eBook also includes embedded translations of terms into modern day words.”

Othello alone has more than 1,400 embedded terms.

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]]> Dianna Dilworth http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/sourcebooks-brings-shakespeare-into-the-21st-century_b58639#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/sourcebooks-brings-shakespeare-into-the-21st-century_b58639 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=58639 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:23:37 +0000