For LLED 368 students, 17 November 2014, Shakespeare resources:
E-texts
~ Project Gutenberg (for full text with no act and scene breaks):
https://www.gutenberg.org/
[For a discussion of act and scene breaks in Shakespeare, see McIver, B., & Stevenson, R. (Eds.). (1994). Teaching with Shakespeare: critics in the classroom. University of Delaware Press, p. 153 ff). The text is available via Google Books.]
~ Internet Shakespeare Editions (for comparison of variant texts):
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca
~ MIT Shakespeare (texts are separated into acts and scenes):
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
~ Full Shakespeare texts for searching in Voyant (go to the folder “Open” to find the texts):
http://voyant-tools.org/
Variant Texts and Adaptations: Rethinking “fidelity discourse” and the importance of performance in teaching Shakespeare
Activity 1: Hamlet variant texts using the Internet Shakespeare Editions
Compare Folio Act 3.1 with Quarto 1 (Section 7, l. 1710 ff)
[For a discussion of variant quartos and theories as to how they were created see this Wikipedia article and follow the references for material you may wish to use with a class: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_quarto]
Activity 2: Adaptations in Performance
Sample performance comparison: Henry V St. Crispin’s Day Speech (Act IV Scene iii 18–67)
1. Olivier (1944, WWII production)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02E
2. Branagh (1989, Thatcher era production [1979-1990])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM
[For an accessible discussion suitable for students, see this undergraduate essay comparing the above film versions:
Graham, D. (2009). “Interpreting the King: Analyzing Two Very Different Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s King Henry V.”
http://www.ueharlax.ac.uk/academics/downloads/honors/grahamdoug.pdf
An article discussing the importance of adaptation in literature: Bortolotti, G. and Hutcheon, L. (2007). On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and “Success” — Biologically. New Literary History, 38(3), pp. 443-458.]
Text Analysis: “Distant Reading” for hypothesis formulation
(See the Visualization tab on the menu for text analysis tools)
Productive text analysis tools to use with Shakespeare texts:
Tools with Shakespeare text:
– Mandala Browser (prototype, download)
– Voyant (online)
Tools without text (get a plain text version of a play or story from gutenberg.org , clean it of license and IP statements, and paste it into the visualization tool):
– Wordle
– Tagxedo
– Word Tree