Engaging Shakespeare: The Website

As we have been working on our final projects for my Shakespeare class, I have been asked to build a website on which we can document the final projects of my classmates and present them to the world. The site is called 'Engaging Shakespeare.'

Engaging Shakespeare: The Event

In anticipation of our upcoming Engaging Shakespeare Event, J.J. and I have put together a basic agenda for how things will go. Here it is!

The Reply

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about an email that I sent to Stephan Thiel about visualizing Shakespeare and the arts. I recently received his reply. Here are his answers to my questions.

Illusion versus Reality

Last week, I had an interview with my Shakespeare professor, Dr. Burton. As I was preparing to meet with him, I went through each of the plays I had read and studied thus far this semester and made a short list of themes in each of them that I could then discuss if Dr. Burton asked. Well, I didn't end up using it; however, I made a rather interesting discovery as I was creating it. The common theme of Shakespeare: Illusion versus Reality.

Measuring Up

My assessment of myself: this post has the main purpose of evaluating myself according to the learning outcomes and expectations of my Shakespeare class and my personal expectations for this blog. 

Final Project Thoughts

I have written a couple of posts now discussing the visualization of Shakespeare. While I was examining the work of Stephan Thiel, I came across this excellent example of helping others engage in the arts. It led me to think about our final projects in my Shakespeare class.

Call Me from Stephan Thiel on Vimeo.

Sharing Shakespeare

A part of Stephan Thiel's Visual Music project.

I recently sent an email to Stephan Thiel, creator of understanding-shakespeare.com as well as numerous other projects focusing on visualizing literature, music, and other arts. I discussed in a previous post my fascination with the Understanding Shakespeare project and created some visuals of my own in my analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In an effort to understand more of Thiel's thoughts on the concept of visualizing the arts, I included the following questions in my email: